Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto speaks during her visit the camp of journalists protesting against the media crackdown in the country after emergency rule was imposed, in Islamabad November 10, 2007.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    ISLAMABAD, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Monday that she had ended talks with President General Pervez Musharraf as "he has not honored his commitments", according to local press reports.

    Bhutto told reporters in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore that fair and transparent elections were not possible in the state of emergency and demanded lifting of emergency, restoration of the deposed chief justice and all other judges who did not take oath under the Provincial Constitutional Order (PCO).

    On Nov. 3, Musharraf imposed emergence and suspended the constitution.

    Bhutto said that she would go ahead with her plan of long march, scheduled to begin from Lahore Tuesday, saying that she discussed with party leaders about the long march plan.

    The Punjab provincial government has banned public rallies and has said that it will strictly implement the ban.

    The government blocked her rally in Rawalpindi near Islamabad last Friday.

    Bhutto claimed that around 5,000 of her party workers were arrested a few days before the rally in Rawalpindi.

Musharraf: General elections in Pakistan to be held by Jan. 9

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf attends a news conference in Islamabad Nov. 11, 2007. Musharraf, giving a timetable for a general election by early January, said on Sunday he could not give a date for the end of emergency rule. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    ISLAMABAD, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- General elections including the national assembly and the provincial assemblies would be held simultaneously before Jan. 9, said Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf here on Sunday.

    At his first press conference in the presidential palace since the imposition of emergency eight days ago, Musharraf said that he made the announcement to refute rumors that he would delay the polls by one month. Full story

Official: Pakistan to lift emergency in a month

    ISLAMABAD, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Emergency in Pakistan will be lifted in a month as the government does not want to make it a permanent feature, Attorney General Malik Qayyum said Saturday.

    "It is the government policy to continue the state of emergency till it is needed but the situation is improving and it will be lifted in a month," the government's top lawyer told a private TV channel. Full story