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Musharraf and was
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf – then as Chief of Army Staff – was responsible for sending thousands of Pakistanis to fight alongside the Taliban and Bin Laden against the United Front.
In the 2002 Parliamentary Elections, Musharraf transferred executive powers to newly elected Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who was succeeded in the 2004 by Shaukat Aziz.
Musharraf was the mastermind and strategic field commander behind the highly controversial and internationally condemned Kargil infiltration, which derailed peace negotiations with Pakistan's long standing archenemy India.
After months of contentious relations with Prime Minister Sharif, Musharraf was brought up power politics through a military coup d ' état in 1999, and subsequently placing the Prime minister under a strict house-arrest before shifting the prime minister to Adiala Jail in Punjab Province.
Voluntarily surrendering the powers of chief executive and the authority to Shaukat Aziz whom Musharraf eye-blindly trusted, their rule was marred by controversies in the last two years, including the armed action in Red Mosque.
During this time, Musharraf maintained his friendship and contact with Mirza through letters and telephones even in difficult times when Mirza, after joining the Navy Special Service Group, was stationed in East-Pakistan as a military advisor to East Pakistan Army.
Musharraf was a lieutenant colonel in 1974 and a colonel in 1978.
In September 1987, an assault was launched under the command of Musharraf at Bilafond La before being pushed back.
His political philosophy was influenced by Benazir Bhutto who mentored him on various occasions, and Musharraf generally closed to Benazir Bhutto on military policy issues on India.
It was during these times when Musharraf build extremely cordial relationships with Shaukat Aziz who, at that time, was serving as the executive president of global financial services of the Citibank.
His last military field operations posting was at the Mangla region of the Kashmir Province in 1995 when Benazir Bhutto approved the promotion of Musharraf to three-star rank, Lieutenant-General.
In 1995-98, Lieutenant-General Musharraf was the corps commander ( CC-I ) of I Strike Corps stationed in Mangla, Mangla Military District.
After the Kargil, Musharraf did not wished to be the Chairman Joint Chiefs but, in clear terms, he mentioned to Shahbaz Sharif that he would not agree to relieved from the post of chief of army staff and promoted to chairman joint chiefs before his term was up.
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.
According to Musharraf, lieutenant-general TP was an ill-mannered, foul-mouth, ill-disciplined officer and was responsible to cause dissension in the armed forces, an information Musharraf reported claimed to have credible and authentic.
Musharraf was a leading strategist behind the Kargil Conflict.
Sharif and Musharraf dispute on who was responsible for the Kargil conflict and Pakistan's withdrawal.
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 ..".

Musharraf and had
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.
During this time, Musharraf became close to engineering officer and director-general of ISI lieutenant-general Javed Nasir and had worked with him while directing operations in Bosnian war.
Musharraf had a good image in Prime minister's circles and a straight officer with democratic views.
Musharraf had severe confrontation and became involve in serious altercations with his senior officers, chief of naval staff Admiral Fasih Bokhari, chief of air staff, air chief marshal PQ Mehdi and senior lieutenant-general Ali Kuli Khan.
Musharraf had left for a weekend trip to take part in Sri Lanka's Army's 50th-anniversary celebrations.
Starting with the PAF, Musharraf pressured President Tarar to appoint most-junior air marshal to four-star rank, particularly someone with Musharraf had experienced working during the inter-services operations.
President Pervez Musharraf and Prime minister Shaukat Aziz acknowledged in 2005 that Khan had provided centrifuges and their designs to North Korea.
There had been rumors in the country with Jamali straining relations with President Musharraf on executing the government policies .< ref name =" Economic Times ">
* Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf admits that he had suspected for at least three years that Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, was sharing nuclear technology with other countries, blaming the United States for not giving him convincing proof of the activities of his own scientist.
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 ).
On December 25, Junoon had once again been embraced by the Pakistani government, and were even joined on stage by then the President, General Pervez Musharraf, as he invited them to perform at the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, on Jinnah's birthday.
By 2004, Aziz had become a right hand of general Musharraf, as Musharraf described in his memoirs.
Aziz quietly and more quickly undermined the elements seeking to undermine Musharraf which may have been a factor that Musharraf had eye-blindly trusted Aziz.
Musharraf, however, asserted that Sharif had been briefed on the Kargil operation 15 days ahead of Vajpayee's journey to Lahore on February 20.
If Musharraf had been successfully countering terrorism, we would not have a situation eight years down the road where ( terrorists ) actually control territory.
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.
During his visit to India, President Pervez Musharraf had renewed Pakistan's claim to the house which the president had suggested to Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee should be given to Pakistan so that it could be turned into a consulate.
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.
" The draft of the ruling coalition ’ s joint statement had been finalized by the draft Committee, and Musharraf must obtain vote of confidence from the National Assembly and 4 provincial assemblies.
During his visit to India, then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had suggested to the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee that the house be given to Pakistan so that it could be turned into a consulate.

Musharraf and reputation
During the war, Musharraf developed a reputation for sticking to his post under shellfire.

Musharraf and public
The Peoples Party's members notably provided their public support Abdul Qadeer Khan against his military debriefings by General Pervez Musharraf in 2004.
The full advantage was taken by President Pervez Musharraf who granted opportunities to the party with an initial and focusing goal of exclusive support of the government and to lessen and diminish the public support of Navaz Sharif in the country.
Jamaat constantly criticized war on terror and arranged public protest against the decision and denounced President Musharraf for " betraying " the Taliban and siding with the U. S. against them.
The then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf expressed his concerns to the then-PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf, who warned Inzamam and told the players to stop public displays of religious beliefs.
Also, in public, the MMA remained confrontational and opposed Musharraf for his partnership with the U. S. The MMA ’ s political program highlighted its nationalist, populist tendencies, while hindering its religious rhetoric.
In addition, its relative passiveness against Musharraf ’ s incumbent regime helped the party ’ s cause, such as exemption from restrictions on public rallies and madrassa registration.
In August 2002, the Committee to Protect Journalists sent a public letter to then-President Pervez Musharraf to draw his attention to alleged harassment of Shaheen Sehbai's family members living in Pakistan.
His funeral was widely attended by members of the public and senior political leaders including Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz ; condolence messages were sent from Pakistani President Pervaiz Musharraf, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
After much criticism given to General Musharraf and his military regime, the Pakistan Government finally declassified all of the 1970s secret publications, hence making it public domain.

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