The Latest Breaking News from Pervez Musharraf

How to hide a president in plain sight: Trump’s catering caper had a Clinton precedent

TOI correspondent from Washington: The catering caper may have been new. The presidential decoy was not.

The Times of India · Aug 12

India-Pakistan tensions: A brief history of conflict

For nearly eight decades, India and Pakistan have experienced near-constant tensions.

Al Jazeera · May 9, 2025

From patron to prey: The rise and fragmentation of Pak’s terror landscape

Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s remarks during a live news interview, that his country has been doing “dirty work” for the West for the last three decades, was a stunning admission on Islamabad’s long history of supporting, training and funding terrorist organisations. A decade ago, former army chief and president…

Newslaundry · May 9, 2025

Army looms large as Nawaz Sharif eases towards fourth term in Pakistan

Military has put its faith in former PM for fourth time, leading many to believe election outcome is already decided

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024

Can Pakistan’s politicians break the military’s stranglehold?

Pakistan’s political leaders have come together previously to bargain for more space in the system. But it’s difficult.

Al Jazeera · Jan 30, 2024

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2023

From a hot dog vendor to head of the formidable mercenary army Wagner Group, his rise through Russian society could easily be described as meteoric

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2023

When Musharraf told Lakshmipathy Balaji: 'You are a great soldier... I salute your spirit'

NEW DELHI: Lakshmipathy Balaji turned out to be the cynosure of all eyes during the Indian cricket team's tour of Pakistan in 2004 with his on-field exploits so much so that the then president Gen Pervez Musharraf saluted his spirit and hailed him as a great soldier fighting bravely for…

The Times of India · Aug 5, 2023

Off the cuff

It is often the unscripted press conferences that make for more interesting copy

The Hindu · Jun 29, 2023

Factbox-Pakistan anti-graft agency that arrested Imran Khan has wide powers

Created by military dictator late General Pervez Musharraf and currently headed by a retired general, Pakistan's powerful anti-graft agency that arrested former prime minister Imran Khan in a land fraud case has a mandate to end corruption in the country.

Reuters · May 12, 2023

Trudy Rubin: A former Pakistani leader's death, and his wise peace plan that failed

When I sat down for a poolside dinner in Villanova in late September 2009, I didn't expect to hear the inside story on how Pakistan and India had come tantalizingly close to making peace two years earlier.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 16, 2023