Former Pakistan PM's return leads to standoff
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif walked off the plane that carried him to Islamabad Monday morning, 90 minutes after landing -- and after a standoff that kept his plane on the airport tarmac.
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GARHI KHUDA BAKSH, Pakistan  - Surrounded by guards wielding AK-47 and M-16 rifles, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was due to receive supporters and relatives at her ancestral home in southern Pakistan on Sunday.
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The violence that greeted Benazir Bhuttoâs return to Pakistan has raised questions about whether a tenuous power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf can survive.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - To the cheers of supporters who set off celebratory firecrackers and flung pink flower petals, the party of exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced yesterday that she would return to her homeland Oct. 18.
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Pakistan's airports are on highest alert amid a security crackdown before the return of former PM Nawaz Sharif.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Under extraordinarily tight security, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto returned to her ancestral homeland yesterday in her first major move since an assassination attempt against her last week killed 140.
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Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto returned home Thursday after eight years in exile, defying Al-Qaeda death threats to receive a jubilant welcome from hundreds of thousands of supporters.
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The imminent homecoming of the prime minister he deposed is the latest challenge to the Pakistani president's precarious hold on power
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  -- Police manned roadblocks and rounded up supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday as he prepared to end seven years in exile and return to Pakistan to lead a campaign to topple the country's U.S.-allied military ruler.
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Ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is bundled out of Pakistan as soon as he arrives. But it may mean more trouble for Musharraf
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Nawaz Sharif, a Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister, arrived in Islamabad today intent on ousting the current president. His plane was held on the runway as he negotiated with police today.
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Several blasts are heard near a convoy carrying Pakistan ex-PM Benazir Bhutto as she makes a triumphant return.
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LONDON -- If Benazir Bhutto were to return to politics in Pakistan, she would stand up to militants, shut down religious schools where extremists recruit children, and work to boost the economy, the former Pakistani prime minister says.
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Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested at Islamabad airport on Monday and taken into custody about three hours after arriving home from seven years in exile.
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An embittered former Pakistani prime minister vowed Thursday to return home from exile next month to fight the attempt by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to extend his military rule.
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Â· Separatist group rearmed during hiatus, PM warnedÂ· Opposition parties hit out at failed peace process
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Hundreds of supporters of ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrested last week are being released.