Pervez Musharraf

ATHENS -- Despite sweeping public discord, Cyprus lawmakers on Tuesday approved a controversial $13-billion bailout imposed by international lenders to keep the island financially afloat, and its economy anchored to Europe’s single currency....

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was arrested and placed in police custody Friday, a day after commandos whisked him away from an Islamabad courthouse where he faces charges of illegally detaining dozens of judges...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Police arrived at the luxury farmhouse of  former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad and took him into custody on charges of illegally detaining dozens of judges while in power. It was unclear exactly what time the...

North Korea insisted Thursday that the U.S. and South Korea must scrap United Nations sanctions and put an end to joint military drills before any talks on its nuclear arsenal can begin. The U.S. and South Korea have said the burden is on Pyongyang to...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- An Islamabad court Thursday ordered the arrest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on charges of illegally detaining dozens of judges while in power, but the former dictator slipped away when Pakistani commandos assigned to...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An Islamabad court Thursday ordered the arrest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on charges of illegally detaining dozens of judges while in power, but he slipped away when commandos assigned to protect the ex-leader...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court on Tuesday barred former President Pervez Musharraf from running in next month’s parliament elections, derailing the onetime general’s bid for an unlikely political comeback in the country he ruled...

Pakistan is beset by a torrent of maladies. Its government is bankrupt. Its economy is mired in stagflation as the population booms. Terrorists strike all corners of the country. Civil conflict in its largest city, Karachi, has evolved from feuds...

KARACHI, Pakistan — As former military ruler Pervez Musharraf stepped off the plane at Karachi’s international airport Sunday, he returned to a very different nation from the one he was forced to leave in 2008 — one that has no...

KARACHI, Pakistan—Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf ended four years of self-imposed exile and returned to Pakistan on Sunday, hoping to craft a political comeback in upcoming parliamentary elections despite pending criminal cases awaiting...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of the prime minister in connection with a scandal from his days as water and power minister. The decision broadsides President Asif Ali Zardari’s government just as he...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — He’s a hero in Pakistan for founding the country's nuclear weapons program, and a pariah in the West for relaying nuclear secrets to rogue states. On Wednesday, aides to A.Q. Khan announced that the retired scientist...