An Islamic militant who is accused of helping carry out the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto wanted to avenge the death of a friend in a military attack last year, a senior police officer said Wednesday.Husnain Gul and his cousin,...

Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif announced Thursday his party was boycotting next month’s elections following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He demanded that President Pervez Musharraf resign immediately.”The holding of fair and free...

Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said.”At 6:16 p.m. she expired,” said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of...

Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was seriously injured and was undergoing surgery Thursday after she was wounded in a suicide attack that killed at least 20 other people, a party aide said.Safdar Abbasi said Bhutto was hit in the bomb blast.”BB is...

A suicide bomber attacked supporters of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as they were leaving a rally on Thursday and at least 20 people were feared dead, police and witnesses said. Bhutto was not harmed, an aide said.An Associated Press...

Blinking back tears, Pervez Musharraf stepped down as Pakistan’s military commander Wednesday, fulfilling a key opposition demand a day before he was to be sworn in as civilian president.Key opposition leader Benazir Bhutto welcomed the belated move,...

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf bade farewell to the military Tuesday, a day before he steps down as army chief and restores Pakistan to civilian rule in an effort to ease the country’s political crisis.Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whom Musharraf..

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said for the first time Wednesday that he expects to quit as chief of Pakistan’s army by the end of November, heralding a return to civilian rule.But in an interview with The Associated Press, he also rejected U.S....

A bomber blew himself up about a quarter-mile from President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s office Tuesday, killing seven people and deepening Pakistan’s insecurity ahead of crucial elections.Officials said the attacker detonated his explosives among police...

Police blocked a suicide bomber who blew himself up near the office of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday, killing seven people, officials said.Meanwhile, more than 1,000 supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif marched on Pakistan’s...