Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf is discussing whether to quit as army chief before upcoming elections, the government said today, rejecting a rival’s claim that the decision has already been made.

Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf has not yet decided whether to step down as army chief before an upcoming presidential election, a government spokesman said today.

President Gen Pervez Musharraf today decided against declaring a state of emergency in Pakistan and will press ahead with plans to hold free and fair elections, a government minister said.

ISLAMIC scholars and a former prime minister opened negotiations with militants besieged in Islamabad’s Red Mosque amid growing fears for some 150 women and children allegedly held hostage inside.

Lawyers throughout Pakistan boycotted court proceedings, clashed with riot police and burned an image of President Gen Pervez Musharraf today in a protest against the removal of the country’s top judge.

Pakistan’s parliament today resumed debate on a bill to change controversial Islamic rape laws that human rights groups want to have repealed.

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at the Pakistan army’s main training base today, killing at least 42 soldiers as they started their calisthenics exercises, Information Minister Mohammed Ali Durrani said.

Pakistan today denied any of the London transport bombers received training or support during visits to the country, including the suicide bomber who appeared in a new video warning of further attacks.

Police in Pakistan were today trying to identify a body that they believe could be the attacker who launched the grenade attack on an Islamabad church, killing five people and injuring more than 45, including five Britons.

Two attackers have hurled grenades into a Protestant church in Pakistan killing five people and wounding about 40.