Pervez Musharraf (; born: 11 August 1943 ), is a retired four-star general and a politician who served as the tenth President of Pakistan from 2001 until 2008.

After his resignation, Musharraf formally appointed himself as President on 20 June 2001.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

Justice Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (), is a retired associate judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and senior jurist who served as the ninth President of Pakistan from January 1, 1998 until voluntarily resigning from the presidency in the favor of General Pervez Musharraf on June 20, 2001.

He voluntarily resigned from the presidency in favor of General Pervez Musharraf on June 20, 2001.

While Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deposed, Tarar chose to remain in office until 2001, at which point Musharraf assumed the presidency.

In June 2001, President General Pervez Musharraf vowed that Pakistan's " mininum nuclear deterrence " would not " be compromised ," but stated that " Pakistan's nuclear capability is entirely for self-defense.

Some notable past interviews include: the last foreign interview with Pakistan ’ s Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto two weeks before her death, President Karzai of Afghanistan, Colonel Gaddafi of Libya, President Musharraf of Pakistan two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Chavez of Venezuela, President Assad of Syria, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, and Saddam Hussein.

* Hamid Javaid ( born 1947 ), former Pakistan Army general, Chief of Staff to President Pervez Musharraf for six years ( 2001 – 2007 )

After Nawaz Sharif's overthrow by Pervez Musharraf, the party stayed an active member of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, until the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001, when it left the alliance over supporting the US ouster of the Taliban.

A computer virus named the Anna Kournikova virus arose on 12 February 2001.

The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.

In 2001 Lara was named the Man of the Carlton Series in Australia with an average of 46. 50, the highest average by a West Indian in that series, scoring two half centuries and one century, 116 against Australia.

Newton joined Steve Smith in 2001 as being the second Panther rookie to be named to the Pro-Bowl.

" Don't Dream It's Over " was named the seventh best Australian song of all time in 2001.

Kabila was assassinated on 16 January 2001 and his son Joseph Kabila was named head of state ten days later.

It was named # 37 overall among the " 150 Best Games of All Time " by Computer Gaming World Magazine ( 15th Anniversary Issue — November 1996 ), was voted # 13 overall in PC Gamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll ( April 2000 issue ), the editors of PC Gamer ranked it # 12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references and it was ranked # 15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

She was named the world's best selling female artist of 2001.

George Stephenson College, founded in 2001 on the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, is named after him, with the student union bar being named The Rocket.

Heinz Field was named after the Heinz company in 2001.

In 2001, when Joey Ramone died, the Ramones were named as inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, prior to the actual ceremony held early the following year.

Michelle was named to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ( Freddie Mac ) board in 2001 by President George W. Bush and re-appointed in 2002.

For instance, on September 23, 2001, the BBC published an article that suggested Mihdhar and others named as hijackers were still at large.

Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).

The mission was named as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, evoking the name of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Mars Odyssey was originally a component of the Mars Surveyor 2001 program, and was named the Mars Surveyor 2001 Orbiter.

* In December 2001, an American citizen of Middle Eastern descent named Assem Bayaa cleared all the security checks at Los Angeles airport and attempted to board a flight to New York.

2001 saw Norv Turner, the former head coach of the Redskins, named offensive coordinator by Riley.

In 2001, the American Humanist Association named him the Humanist of the Year for his lifetime of work.

Seattle Central Community College was named Time magazine's Community College of the Year in 2001.

On September 23, 2001, before the FBI had released the pictures of the hijackers, the BBC and The Daily Telegraph reported that a Saudi Airlines pilot named Saeed al-Ghamdi was furious that a name on the hijacker's list released by the FBI matched his own.

According to immigration records in the Philippines, someone named Saeed al-Ghamdi visited that country on at least 15 occasions in 2001, entering as a tourist.

His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

Although Francois Bozizé has a background in FACA himself ( being its chief-of-staff from 1997 to 2001 ), he has been cautious by retaining the defence portfolio, as well as by appointing his son Jean-Francis Bozizé cabinet director in charge of running the Ministry of Defence.

Gaddafi also styled himself as an advocate of Pan-Africanism, and was active in the establishment of the African Union in 2001.

On December 22, 2001, Mayol committed suicide by hanging himself in Elba, Italy, at the age of 74.

Digweed continued to play the time slot by himself until May 6, 2001 when Twilo was raided by the NYPD and subsequently forced to close down.

On June 1, 2001, Crown Prince Dipendra was officially reported to have shot and killed his father, King Birendra ; his mother, Queen Aishwarya ; his brother ; his sister, his father's younger brother, Prince Dhirendra ; and several aunts, before turning the gun on himself.

Paul Streitz's Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I ( 2001 ) advances a variation on the theory: that Oxford himself was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth by her stepfather, Thomas Seymour.

* 2001 – Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then kills himself.

In particular, Viola's obsession with capturing the essence of emotion through recording of its extreme display began at least as early as his 1976 work, The Space Between the Teeth, a video of himself screaming, and continues to this day with such works as the 45-second Silent Mountain ( 2001 ), which shows two actors in states of anguish.

More than 450 UCPMB members took advantage of KFOR's " screen and release " policy, among them Shefket Musliu, the commander of the UCPMB, who turned himself over to KFOR at a checkpoint along the GSZ just after midnight of May 26, 2001.

* The Shape of Sola Scriptura ( 2001 ) by Keith Mathison ( himself a Calvinistic evangelical )

In " Day of the Jackanapes " ( season 12, 2001 ), Bob discovers that Krusty has erased all of the early shows featuring Sideshow Bob as Krusty himself is declaring his fifth and final retirement after being annoyed with the network executives.

Joshi has also written a book-length study, Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction ( 2001 ), and edited The Count of Thirty ( Necronomicon Press 1994 ), which contains critical appreciations by various authors and a long interview with Campbell himself.

Beyond a complete restyling of the area, the ancient portual zone nearby the Mandraccio opening, in Porta Siberia, was scenographically enriched by Piano himself with a big sphere made of metal and glass, installed in the port's waters, not far from the Acquario, and unveiled in 2001 in occasion of the G8 Summit held in Genoa.

In 2001, Thijs van Leer re-formed Focus with himself, stepson Bobby Jacobs on bass, guitarist Jan Dumée, and drummer Ruben van Roon ( all are former members of the band CONXI ).

Lehman would sometimes repeat this story himself, as in the documentary Destination Hitchcock that accompanied the 2001 DVD release of the film.

The movie is ranked seventh in Arthur C. Clarke's list of the best Science-Fiction films of all time, just above Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Clarke himself co-wrote.

He was an ambassador until 2001, after which he devoted himself to philanthropic work.

In 2001, when on Dutch television he announced the marriage of his son Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, and Máxima Zorreguieta, an Argentine woman of Spanish and Italian descent, Prince Claus referred to himself as more a citizen of the world than anything else.

On February 4, 2001, he committed suicide by shooting himself.

Charles K. Johnson himself died on March 19, 2001.

On November 12, 2001, 17-year old Chris Buschbacher, armed with a. 22-caliber rifle and a 20-gauge shotgun, took one teacher and one student hostage at the Caro Learning Center before killing himself.

The success later got Sisqó a doll made of himself by Play Along Toys in 2001.