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Pakistani policemen inspect the site of a bomb explosion in Islamabad on April 3, 2014. Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is on trial for treason, escaped the bomb blast in the early hours, police said. (AFP Photo/Aamir Qureshi)

Pakistan’s Musharraf escapes bomb attack

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 3, 2014 | World

Islamabad, AP—A bomb exploded near a convoy carrying former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf who is on trial for treason, but the former ruler was not harmed, a police official and his spokeswoman said on Thursday. Musharraf had survived multiple assassination...

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Supporters of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf gesture outside the Special Court formed to try him for treason in Islamabad March 31, 2014. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Former Pakistani president Musharraf denies treason

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 31, 2014 | World

Islamabad, Reuters—Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf pleaded not guilty to five counts of treason on Monday in the latest chapter of a long-running drama between the increasingly assertive judiciary and its former military ruler. Musharraf faces the death...

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File photo—In this photograph taken on April 20, 2013, former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf is escorted by soldiers as he arrives at an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad. (AFP PHOTO/AAMIR QURESHI/FILES)

Judge grants bail for ex-Pakistani leader

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 4, 2013 | World

Islamabad, AP—A court granted former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf bail Monday in a case related to the death of a radical cleric, paving the way for an end to his more than six-month house arrest, his defense lawyer said. Musharraf, who has been plagued by...

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FILE – In this April 20, 2013, file photo, Pakistan’s former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf arrives at an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan’s Musharraf charged with murder of Benazir Bhutto

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 20, 2013 | World

Pakistan, Reuters—A court in Pakistan charged former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday with the 2007 murder of Benazir Bhutto in an unprecedented move likely to anger the all-powerful army. The indictment of the army chief who seized power in a 1999 coup...

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Pakistan’s incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif waves to his party’s newly elected MPs in Lahore on May 20, 2013 (AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI)

Nawaz Sharif: Back in the game

by Umar Farouq | May 27, 2013 | Profiles

Islamabad, Asharq Al-Awsat—In the first week of June, a triumphant Nawaz Sharif will re-enter the prime minister’s house in Islamabad, Pakistan, to re assume his position as chief executive of the country—his third time at the helm. Sharif has often told his close...