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Lawyers representing the opposition Pakistani Peoples Party filed new petitions at the Supreme Court of Pakistan Tuesday challenging President Pervez Musharraf's bid to run for another term in office. The opposition members argue that the...

Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday ordered three Islamabad law enforcement officials to be suspended over Saturday's crackdown on lawyers and journalists protesting the...

Pakistani riot police clashed with lawyers demonstrating outside the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Saturday, as hundreds protested a high court ruling allowing Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ...

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that constitutional questions remaining after the Pakistan Supreme Court's recent ruling that President Pervez Musharraf may contest the upcoming Pakistan presidential election as the Commander-in-Chief of the armed...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan dismissed legal challenges Friday to a bid by current Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to run for another term as president while still serving as chief of the Pakistani...

Pakistan police closed off the capital of Islamabad on Thursday to prevent protesters from rallying against President Musharraf's bid for a second five-year term in office. Pakistani lawyers had threatened earlier in the week to defy a government ban...

Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association nominated former judge Wajeehuddin Ahmed on Monday to run in the upcoming presidential election against current Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf . Musharraf's eligibility to run is still being contested, despite the Supreme Court...

Ali Khan : President Pervez Musharraf is determined to reclaim the Pakistan Presidency for another term of five years. Under Pakistan's Constitution, the President is elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of (a)...

Pakistani government authorities detained at least a dozen members of the opposition Saturday as part of an effort to prevent possible "disturbances" relating to President Pervez Musharraf re-election bid. A high level official in the capital Islamabad...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the US and nine other countries to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty on Tuesday, saying that the ratification would "move us toward the larger goals of ridding the...