Jailed Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan continued his hunger strike for a second day today.

Pakistani authorities began releasing some of the thousands of opposition supporters detained since emergency rule was imposed earlier this month, officials said today.

A Supreme Court hand-picked by President Pervez Musharraf swiftly dismissed legal challenges to his continued rule today, opening the way for him to serve another five-year term this time solely as a civilian president.

Pakistan’s reconstituted Supreme Court today dismissed legal challenges to President General Pervez Musharraf’s continued rule, a senior official said.

A reconstituted Pakistani Supreme Court, loaded with judges chosen by President Pervez Musharraf, began deliberations today on the legality of the general’s emergency rule and his eligibility to serve a third term as head of state.

Two of Pakistan’s most influential opposition leaders banded together today in an attack on President Pervez Musharraf’s regime, demanding he step down.

Pakistani authorities placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for the second time in four days, police said tonight.

Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will not be allowed to hold her planned protest procession across Pakistan, the government announced today.

Pakistan’s military ruler General Pervez Musharraf promised that elections would be held on schedule before January 9th, in a press conference today.

Pakistan released opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from house arrest and said it will lift a state of emergency within a month.

Three reporters from The Daily Telegraph newspaper have been ordered to leave Pakistan in the next 72 hours for using abusive and foul language against the country and its leadership, an official said today.

Pakistan will lift its state of emergency within one month, a senior government official said today.

Two top police officials were suspended in Pakistan today over a crackdown that wounded dozens of journalists and lawyers during protests against President Pervez Musharraf’s attempts at re-election.

Security forces sealed off the Pakistani capital Islamabad today to prevent a protest against President General Pervez Musharraf’s controversial candidacy for a new five-year term.

Pervez Musharraf today rejected “any pressure or ultimatum” to decide whether to quit as army chief, his spokesman said, after opposition leader Benazir Bhutto claimed he would step down under a pact to restore Pakistan to democracy.

Pakistan’s exiled former premier, Benazir Bhutto, said Gen Pervez Musharraf had agreed to step down as army chief in a move she believed would happen before the next presidential election.

Thousands of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s opponents rallied nationwide today, the first street protests since a burst of political violence in Pakistan’s business capital deepened a crisis clouding his plans to stay in power.