Calls for Musharraf to Step Down
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Pakistan's U.S.-allied president must resign before next month's elections or the country could risk slipping into civil war, opposition leaders and a leading independent research institute said Thursday
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Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf may quit as army chief in return for support from political parties to re-elect him for another term, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Pakistan&#39;s opposition parties lambasted President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday for going back on his word to step down as army chief by the end of the year, calling it another blow to democracy.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf will give up his post of army chief soon after he is re-elected president and he will be sworn in for a new term as a civilian, his lawyer told the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 -- With his popularity in free fall and his options narrowing, indications grew Tuesday that Gen. Pervez Musharraf would soon give up his role as army chief in a bid to remain Pakistan's president.
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Nawaz Sharif called for the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf amid strong indications that the government would postpone the elections set for Jan. 8.
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A group of retired Pakistani generals and admirals is stepping up its unprecedented campaign against President Pervez Musharraf, even joining in a public protest to demand that the former military chief resign.
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ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf told the Pakistani nation yesterday he was going back on his vow to give up his additional role of army chief, listing the fight against terrorism among his reasons.
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Seventy-five percent of Pakistanis  want President Pervez Musharraf to quit, according to a survey  released by the U.S.-based International Republican Institute  on Monday.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#39;s President Pervez Musharraf plans to address the nation today to explain his decision to go back on a pledge to stand down as chief of the powerful army by the end of the year, a government official said.
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Pakistan's President Musharraf urges reconciliation after his opponents win elections, but rules out stepping down.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf faced mounting calls to quit Tuesday as opposition parties moved towards a coalition government in the wake of a sweeping election victory over his allies.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf Friday to "stick to the course he has outlined to build democracy" after the death of Benazir Bhutto.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will give up his position as army chief if he wins re-election as president, a government lawyer said Tuesday.
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Pakistan&#39;s president, General Pervez Musharraf, yesterday reneged on a promise to stand down as army chief at the end of the year.
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Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan warned that the South Asian nation was heading "towards chaos" and called for President Pervez Musharraf to quit following Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
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His dismissal Friday raises fresh concern that President Musharraf will remove obstacles to his reelection this fall.