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Musharraf and General
Military tensions in the Kargil conflict with India were followed by a 1999 coup d ' état in which General Pervez Musharraf assumed executive powers.
He submitted his thesis to Commandant General Anthony Walker who regarded Musharraf as one of his finest students he had seen in his entire career.
In 1993-95, Major-General Musharraf worked closely with the Chief of Army Staff as Director-General of Pakistan Army's Directorate General for the Military Operations ( DGMO ).
After the collapse of the fractious Afghan government, Musharraf assisted General Babar and the Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) in devising a policy of supporting the newly formed Taliban in the Afghan civil war against the Northern Alliance government.
In a dinner with Admiral Bokhari, Nawaz Sharif announced to promote General Musharraf as chairman joint chiefs while willingly approved the retirement papers of TP.
Admiral Bokhari ultimately demanded a full-fledged joint-service court martial against General Musharraf, while on other hand General Kuli Khan lambasted the war as " a disaster bigger than the East-Pakistan tragedy ", adding that the plan was " flawed in terms of its conception, tactical planning and execution " that ended in " sacrificing so many soldier.
Lieutenant-General Kiani maintained that " this impression was created by General Pervez Musharraf which was totally wrong ..".
" The Dubai government ordered Tecom to shut down the popular independent Pakistani news channels Geo News and ARY One World on the demand of Pakistan's military regime led by General Pervez Musharraf.
Oakley has one of the largest group of General Pervez Musharraf supporters in the United States.
Perhaps the most interesting story concerning the retirement of Albert Reynolds is his relationship with the President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf.
In 1999 General Musharraf became President of Pakistan following a military coup.
In 1990, Major-General Pervez Musharraf, who was the Director-General of the Directorate-General for the Military Operations ( DGMO ), proposed a strategic plan against India to Benazir Bhutto calling for a Kargil Infiltration, but Benazir refused because General Musharraf didn't have a strategy for dealing with any resultant international fallout.
Sharif was deposed in 1999 in a similar military coup led by Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Pervez Musharraf.
* Imran Khan, former captain of Pakistan cricket team and chairman of Pakistan Movement of Justice ( PTI ) was placed under house arrest at the declaration of a state of emergency by Chief of Army Staff General Pervaz Musharraf on November 3, 2007.
* Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Chief Justice of Pakistan, was put under house arrest on November 3, 2007 by General Pervaz Musharraf.
* Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's top scientist and founder of Pakistan's Gas-centrifuge programme of the Pakistan's nuclear device was also put under house arrest for a long time by General Pervez Musharraf.
Former President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, was born in the Nahar Vali Haveli in Daryaganj, Delhi, India.
* The Sitara-i-Eisaar ( Star of Sacrifice ) award, presented by the President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, in recognition of Mercy Corps ' relief efforts following the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.
Although a senior leader in the Pakistan Muslim League ( PML ) and Sharif's confidante, Jamali's relations went cold, and he subsequently joined the dissident's party after the 1999 coup led by General Pervez Musharraf.
Problems with Nawaz Sharif arise in 1999 during the Kargil war and subsequently ended his support to the Prime minister after the 1999 coup d ' état led by chief of army staff and Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Pervez Musharraf.
Titled the PPP-PML summit declaration, the joint declaration both parties agreed on the reinstatement of judges deposed during the emergency rule imposed on 3 November 2007 by General Pervez Musharraf within 30 days after the new federal government was formed.
The Peoples Party's members notably provided their public support Abdul Qadeer Khan against his military debriefings by General Pervez Musharraf in 2004.

Musharraf and Khalid
He told authorities that Majid Khan, a Baltimore youth who worked at his father's gas station, had referred to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as an " uncle " and spoken of a desire to kill Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf.

Musharraf and Nawaz
* 1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
Commissioned in Pakistan Army in 1964, Musharraf rose to national prominence after being appointed to the four-star assignments in October 1998 by then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Nisar Ali Khan and Shahbaz Sharif recommended Musharraf during the meeting and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif personally promoted Musharraf as four-star general to replace Karamat.
Musharraf favored the chief of naval staff Admiral Bokhari to be elevated as chairman joint chiefs, and claimed that: " he did not care " Prime minister was already facing cold war with the Admiral in sometime between 1999 and Musharraf cemented problems with Nawaz Sharif after recommending the force retirement of senior officer close to the Prime minister.
Upon hearing the announcement of Nawaz Sharif, replacing Pervez Musharraf by Khwaja Ziauddin, the third replacement of the top military commander of the country in less than two years, local military commanders begun to mobilize troops towards Islamabad from nearby Rawalpindi.
Although Admiral Aziz Mirza ( a life-long friend of Musharraf shared the dorm with the admiral in 1960s and graduated together from the academy ) was appointed by Prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Mirza remained extremely supportive to Musharraf's coup and was also a close friend of Musharraf since 1971 when both participate in an joint operations against Indian Army.
After heavy losses and a recalcitrant general in Musharraf, and with both the United States and China refusing to condone the incursion or threaten India to stop its military operations, Nawaz Sharif asked the remaining militants to stop and withdraw to positions along the LoC.
This was the same motives and move made by future Prime minister Nawaz Sharif who promoted Pervez Musharraf based on his political ambitious, as Chief of Army Staff, but met the same fate as Bhutto in 1999 ( although he was not executed ).
His opponents were the former judge Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, who was nominated by Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League, ( Nawaz ) ( PML-N ), and Mushahid Hussain Sayed, who was nominated by members of the Pakistan Muslim League ( who had supported Musharraf ).
While Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deposed, Tarar chose to remain in office until 2001, at which point Musharraf assumed the presidency.
Amongst the Opposition, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was one of the first leaders to congratulate General Pervez Musharraf for removing Nawaz Sharif.
* Chief of Army Staff General Pervaz Musharraf, who was also Chairman Joint Staff Committee, took over the government from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and declared himself as Chief Executive through a Proclamation of Emergency, on 12 October 1999.
Originally a supporter of Nawaz Sharif, Hussain developed serious issues regarding the national economy, Kargil war and left PML after the 1999 coup d ' état commenced by chief of army staff and chairman joint chiefs of staff committee general Pervez Musharraf.
In September 2007, Ahmed flew to Islamabad with Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in a bid to end Sharif's exile from the country by military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who had ousted him in a coup d ' état.
* General Pervez Musharraf seizes control of Pakistan after a military coup against the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
* General Parvez Musharraf overthrows the democratically elected government of Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan.
General Pervez Musharraf is the only military officer, who as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee ( note that he was also Chief of Army Staff at the same time ), overthrew the democratic government of Prime minister Nawaz Sharif on October 12, 1999 ( See 1999 Pakistani coup d ' état ),
However, this time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sacked Musharraf when he was on his way to Pakistan from Colombo.

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