Full Coverage: Pakistan

26.02.2008 A former high-ranking official from Pakistan's "shadowy but powerful" Inter Services Intelligence admitted to having manipulated the 2002 elections in favor of President Musharraf and is now saying the organization's political activities should be laid down.

26.02.2008 Plan's operations in Pakistan have been suspended after four people - including three staff members - were killed by gunmen in Mansehra in the North West Frontier district.

24.02.2008 Confounding all predictions, the Pakistani people have clearly demonstrated that they want to choose their own rulers and decide their own future. There is a consensus from Lahore to Karachi, says William Dalrymple.
From New Statesman

20.02.2008 The budding IT industry in Pakistan, currently worth $3 billion, is now looking east towards India to set up its data centres. It is expected that more of its new technology firms would soon seek to leverage Indian expertise and talent.

19.02.2008 A spokesman for Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has dismissed calls for the former general to quit after his allies conceded defeat in parliamentary elections.
From Dawn

19.02.2008 President Musharraf's opponents headed for election victory in Pakistan today after voters rejected his former ruling party.
From Dawn
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18.02.2008 DENVER, Feb 18 (OneWorld) - Whatever today's election tallies show, the period of instability and government restrictions leading up to the vote in Pakistan ensure that the results will not reflect the will of the country's people, said human rights groups in the United States and Asia this weekend.

17.02.2008 If Pakistan's elections are rigged this week, democracy would be endangered and so would the country's very existence, warns a leading Asian rights group.
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12.02.2008 Human rights activists are extremely weary about the credibility of Pakistan's upcoming presidential elections, given the continued detention of independent judges, the recent re-arrests of lawyers on "spurious grounds," and the induction of President Musharraf's appointees into Pakistan's judiciary.
From: Human Rights Watch

07.02.2008 KARACHI, Feb 6 (IPS) - Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani national incarcerated in the United States military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba since September 2004, suffers from a serious heart condition and may not live unless provided special care, says his lawyer.