International Business News - Pakistan http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Pakistani lawyers met Saturday to decide whether to mount street protests against the government after its failure to reinstate judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48094-pakistan-politics.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/pakistan-lawyers-mull-street-protests.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/pakistan-lawyers-mull-street-protests.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 06:40:15 EDT Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was freed unharmed three months after he vanished in a tribal area in Pakistan's border region, a foreign ministry official and a relative said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/abducted-pakistani-diplomat-freed.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 05:04:50 EDT Pakistan's army lodged a formal protest Friday to "allied forces" in neighboring Afghanistan over a suspected U.S. missile strike this week that killed 14 people in a Pakistani border village. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/46868-pakistan-missile-attack.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/militants-kill-soldier-in-pakistan-tribal-area.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/militants-kill-soldier-in-pakistan-tribal-area.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 13:14:33 EDT A top Taliban leader vowed Thursday to target the U.S. after an alleged missile strike killed several people in northwest Pakistan, a threat that could undermine the new government's efforts to negotiate peace deals with militants. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/46506-aptopix-pakistan-missile-strike.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/top-taliban-leader-vows-revenge-on-america.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/top-taliban-leader-vows-revenge-on-america.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 13:01:27 EDT Residents say a missile strike on a house in a Pakistan border village has killed about a dozen people. At least two explosions went off in Damadola, in the Bajur region near Afghanistan late Wednesday. Residents said they had seen drones flying in the area. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080514/residents-missile-strike-hits-pakistan-village.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 14:39:02 EDT Pakistani authorities and Taliban militants exchanged dozens of prisoners Wednesday, officials said in the latest breakthrough in a peace process that is stirring growing alarm in the West. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080514/pakistan-swaps-prisoners-with-taliban-militants.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 13:00:36 EDT Pakistani troops fired at an Indian army post Wednesday across the heavily guarded frontier dividing Kashmir between the two South Asian rivals in a rare violation of the cease-fire, the Indian military said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080514/india-army-says-pakistan-fires-across-frontier.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 07:13:36 EDT Pakistan's government agreed to let judges consider advice from Islamic scholars in court cases in parts of the volatile tribal regions of the northwest, officials said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080513/deal-on-role-for-islamic-law-in-nw-pakistan-area.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 17:31:28 EDT Ministers from the party of ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif submitted their resignations from Pakistan's Cabinet on Tuesday, shaking the fragile coalition government that took power just six weeks ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45796-pakistan-politics.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080513/party-moves-quit-pakistan-cabinet.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080513/party-moves-quit-pakistan-cabinet.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 07:06:44 EDT A lawyer says a Pakistani court has cleared the widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of charges of smuggling artifacts. Asif Ali Zardari was accused of trying to smuggle antique guns and swords out of Pakistan in a case filed in 1997, soon after Bhutto's ouster as prime minister. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080513/bhuttos-husband-cleared-of-smuggling-artifacts.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 06:50:20 EDT Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party from the Cabinet on Monday, raising doubts over the new government's stability and Pakistan's transition to democracy after eight years of military rule. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45637-pakistan-politics.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/sharifs-party-to-quit-pakistan-cabinet.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/sharifs-party-to-quit-pakistan-cabinet.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 15:58:07 EDT Ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced that his party is withdrawing from Pakistan's federal Cabinet but will not join the parliamentary opposition. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45526-pakistan-politics.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/sharifs-party-quitting-pakistans-cabinet.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/sharifs-party-quitting-pakistans-cabinet.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 08:46:36 EDT The future of Pakistan's fledgling coalition government hung in the balance Monday after failed talks on how to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/pakistan-governing-coalition-faces-dissolution.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 03:16:54 EDT The future of Pakistan's fledgling coalition government hung in the balance Monday after failed talks on how to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/fate-of-pakistan-governing-coalition-faces-dissolution.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 03:03:35 EDT Pakistani leaders failed Sunday to reach a deal on restoring judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, increasing the likelihood the ruling coalition could shatter after just six weeks in power and plunge the country back into political turmoil. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080511/pakistan-leaders-fail-to-reach-accord-on-restoring-judges.htm Sun, 11 May 2008 14:25:21 EDT With a self-imposed deadline looming, Pakistani leaders had yet to clinch a deal Sunday on restoring judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, an issue that has threatened to break up the ruling coalition. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45341-pakistan-politics.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080511/deadline-on-judges-looms-in-pakistan.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080511/deadline-on-judges-looms-in-pakistan.htm Sun, 11 May 2008 06:26:29 EDT Police say gunmen have killed a Shiite Muslim shop owner and two of his customers in an apparent sectarian attack in Pakistan. Saturday's attack happened in Dera Ismail Khan, a town on the Indus River in Pakistan's northwest. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080510/police-say-gunmen-kill-3-shiite-muslims-in-pakistan.htm Sat, 10 May 2008 04:37:30 EDT Pakistan's new government freed a prominent ethnic Baluch leader Friday as it tries to forge reconciliation in the restive southwest of the country. Jubilant supporters crowded Sardar Akhtar Mengal, chief of Baluchistan National Party, as he left a Karachi hospital, where he was detained because of ill health. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45175-pakistan-release.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/pakistan-frees-ethnic-leader-in-bid-to-bring-peace.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/pakistan-frees-ethnic-leader-in-bid-to-bring-peace.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 23:19:59 EDT Pakistan's new government freed a prominent ethnic Baluch leader Friday as it tries to forge reconciliation in the restive southwest of the country. Jubilant supporters crowded Sardar Akhtar Mengal, chief of Baluchistan National Party, as he left a Karachi hospital, where he was detained because of ill health. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/pakistan-frees-ethnic-leader.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 21:54:44 EDT Pakistani authorities and pro-Taliban militants declared a cease-fire Friday in the volatile Swat Valley in the latest bid to curtail an explosion of violence along the Afghan border, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/cease-fire-in-pakistans-swat-valley.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 13:43:07 EDT