Pakistan Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf has become a lame duck president after voters gave resounding support to opposition parties in parliamentary elections
Pakistani efforts to negotiate peace deals with militants in the border regions with Afghanistan have raised concerns in Kabul and Washington
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif withdraws his ministers after the failure to break a deadlock with his main coalition partner over the reinstatement of deposed judges
Pakistan’s new coalition government will cut budget expenditure across the board, including military spending, to cope with the rising cost of fuel and food subsidies
The Malaysian bank is set to pay as much as $1bn for a minority stake in Muslim Commercial Bank of Pakistan, a purchase welcomed as evidence of renewed investor confidence
Pakistan’s ruling coalition announced the reinstatement of all the judges dismissed by Pervez Musharraf last November, in a challenge to the president’s position
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto ends the baroque and bloody saga of a political dynasty in Pakistan. A young, glamorous, and western-educated woman in a male-dominated society, she presented a plausible face of modernity but was also tough, ruthless, and tainted by corruption charges
Any attempt to fix the state must address intrinsic weaknesses – overemphasis on military spending at the cost of education, leading to an overmighty military, an underdeveloped economy and semi-feudal politics, writes Gideon Rachman
Why are you in Davos? It is a question we struggle with. But when we posed it to Pervez Musharraf, the president seemed incredulous, writes Gideon Rachman
The biggest risk to the credibility of the poll comes from the president’s likely efforts to rig the result, writes Jo Johnson
A mainstream coalition government should stand up to US interference and distribute economic benefits more widely, as the PPP is likely to disintegrate without Benazir Bhutto, writes Anatol Lieven
Pakistan’s Imran Khan is not without political credentials or sincerity, and he could prove to be the most eye-catching sportsman-turned-politician yet
The best outcome would be the return to centre stage of the mainstream parties, the implosion of Islamists and a national unity government to rebuild institutions
Bhutto’s violent death leaves a hole in national politics and adds a vicious extra dimension of disintegration to a country that is already falling apart
No country can be called truly democratic with a puppet judiciary. The outside world should remind Pakistan’s president of this fundamental point
Winning the legitimacy needed to defeat jihadism requires national consensus, which can only be built from open democratic contest around the rule of law
As Gen Pervez Musharraf deploys the army to counter liberal protests on the streets, pro-Taliban Islamists are moving into a vacuum on the Afghan border
