Asif Ali Zardari

Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic

2013-05-15 15:14:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....

Pakistan ex-premier's party sweeps elections

2013-05-12 18:51:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's overwhelming victory in weekend parliamentary elections returns to power a seasoned politician who historically has had rocky ties with Pakistan's powerful military and is viewed by many...

Pakistanis vote in landmark election

2013-05-11 19:52:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis braved threats from militants and voted Saturday in national elections that marked the country's first democratic transfer of governance and appeared to put former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on track for...

Pakistan's Sharif: Seasoned leader is seen as soft on extremists

2013-05-12 08:54:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections this weekend returns to power a seasoned politician who historically has had rocky ties with Pakistan’s powerful military and is...

Polls close in historic Pakistan elections; some bombings occur

2013-05-11 08:42:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a bloody campaign season marred by waves of bombings and candidate assassinations, Pakistanis turned out in large numbers Saturday to elect a new parliament in what is slated to be the first democratic transition of...

Pakistan elections: Polls open amid more violence

2013-05-10 23:29:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistanis went to the polls Saturday to elect a new parliament amid continued violence marring the historic event, as militants detonated a bomb outside a liberal, anti-Taliban party’s campaign office in the southern port...

In Pakistan, clamor for change propels 2 parties

2013-05-09 15:13:00

CHINIOT, Pakistan — Even from his hospital bed, with a gash in his head and three broken vertebrae from a 15-foot fall, Imran Khan stumped for votes. "I have done whatever I could do," Khan told the nation as a Pakistani television crew...

Gunmen kidnap former Pakistani prime minister's son

2013-05-09 06:41:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Gunmen on Thursday abducted provincial assembly candidate Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, at a campaign gathering in the southern city of Multan -- a dramatic escalation of the wave of...

Injured Pakistani politician Imran Khan may end campaigning

2013-05-08 05:39:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Imran Khan, the former cricket star who heads up one of the leading parties in national elections set for Saturday, suffered three fractured vertebrae and a broken rib in a fall in the eastern city of Lahore this week and probably...

The Week Ahead: Iran and Pakistan on the stump, Mubarak on trial

2013-05-06 05:00:00

D-Day for Iranian presidential race Tuesday, May 7 -- So many candidates, so few promising real change. More than a dozen Iranian lawmakers, former Cabinet ministers, revolutionary guardsmen and allies of Islamic leaders have thrown in their hats...

Pakistan secular candidates campaign at their own risk

2013-05-03 18:00:00

SHABQADAR, Pakistan — When Masoom Shah hits the campaign trail these days, he brings a 9-millimeter Glock pistol and a team of up to 50 bodyguards. Instead of appearing before large crowds, he meets small clusters of voters at guesthouses where...

12 killed in Pakistan campaign violence

2013-04-28 20:18:00

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 12 people were killed and 43 injured Sunday in bomb blasts targeting a candidate's convoy and the election offices of two others in northwestern Pakistan. They were the latest in a series of terrorist strikes that...

President Obama speaks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai , center, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at the McCormick Place Convention Center during the NATO summit in Chicago .

2012-05-21 00:00:00

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani , seen in April, was ousted because of his contempt conviction for failing to revive a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari .

2012-04-26 00:00:00

Floodwater surges through a village in northwest Pakistan . Heavy rains are expected to lash areas of Pakistan already devastated by the worst floods in 80 years, probably intensifying a calamity that has cast more doubts about the leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari .

2010-08-06 00:00:00