Pakistan’s prime minister survived an apparent assassination attempt today when at least two shots hit his limousine as he drove toward Islamabad.

PAKISTAN’S main ruling party have proposed the widower of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto as Pakistan’s next president.

Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s spokesman says he will not resign despite the move by Pakistan’s ruling coalition to finalise impeachment charges against him over the weekend.

British forensic experts assisting the investigation into Benazir Bhutto’s assassination met President Pervez Musharraf today to share their initial findings.

Suicide attackers tried to kill a leading Pakistani politician today as members of Benazir Bhutto’s political party prepared for critical meetings on whether to boycott January 8 elections following her assassination.

Pakistan said today it did not need foreign assistance to investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, despite deepening controversy over how the former prime minister died and who killed her.

President Gen Pervez Musharraf will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he secures re-election as president, a government lawyer said today.

POLITICIANS and rights groups condemned Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for saying in a US newspaper that rape had become a “money-making concern”, with some Pakistani women believing it was a ticket to settling abroad.