Pakistan's election commission has confirmed that military ruler Pervez Musharraf won last month's presidential election, giving him another five years in office.

Thirty-five people were killed in a suicide bombers’ attack targeted at intelligent agency employees and a checkpoint near the headquarters of the Pakistan army.

Exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the man President Pervez Musharraf deposed, is set to return to Pakistan within days, aides said, after a deal to lift his exile in Saudi Arabia.

A Pakistani man was beheaded on Friday. He was convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia. In a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, the ministry said that Aslam Shahbaz Khan was executed in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

Foreign ministers meeting in Uganda have voted to suspend Pakistan from the Commonwealth. Pakistan will be out of the international club until President General Pervez Musharraf restores democracy and the rule of law.

Pakistan's Supreme Court, stacked with judges friendly to President Pervez Musharraf, have dismissed a final challenge to his re-election, the new chief justice said, paving the way for him to quit as army chief.

Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed on Thursday opposition claims over the legitimacy of President Pervez Musharraf's reelection for a second term.

The suspension of Pakistan from the 53-nation group will be discussed at the Commonwealth foreign ministers committee meeting.

Pakistani sienior official claimed Gen. Pervez Musharraf could quit as chief of Pakistan's army and take an oath as a civilian president by Saturday.

Pakistan's military regime has started to release thousands of people who have been detained under the state of emergency. According to figures released by the Interior Ministry, 3,400 people have already been set free and a further 2,000 will be released soon.

Chief Election Commissioner Justice (r) Qazi Mohammad Farooq said today on Tuesday 20 November 2007 that elections for national and provincial assemblies would be held simultaneously on January 8, 2008

Imprisoned Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan continues his two-day hunger strike. Prison authorities deny that the politician refuses to eat saying he had breakfast.