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.

Sharif later graduated from Cairo University with degrees in both mathematics and physics.

While not wearing the Islamic clerics uniform anymore, Larijani, raised in a religious family, graduated from a hawza before starting his higher education at Electrical Engineering in Sharif University of Technology, wearing the uniform for the full four years.

In the late 1870s, Afghan Emir Sher Ali Khan escaped from Kabul to take refuge in Mazar-e Sharif, which was un-affected by the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century between Afghanistan and then British India.

On November 9, 2001 the city was officially captured by the Afghan Northern Alliance forces after the Battle of Mazar e Sharif with help from the United States Special Operations Forces and bombing by U. S. Air Force aircraft.

The rail service from Mazar-e Sharif to Uzbekistan that began in 2011 is expected to rapidly boost the economy of the city.

* 1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.

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.

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.

Sources from Pakistan claimed that Musharraf and his military government's officers were in full mood to exercise tough conditions on Sharif, was intended to sent Navaz Sharif to gallows to face similar fate as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979.

Pan-Arabism was first pressed by Sharif Hussein ibn Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, who sought independence for the Mashreq Arabs from the Ottoman Empire, and the establishment of a unified Arab state in the Mashreq.

Due to his open-public protest, he was asked to resign from his position by the prime minister Sharif.

Mahmood opted for early retirement from PAEC in 1999 as he was transferred to a non-technical position by the Prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

In October 2009, the former president of Zanzibar, Amani Abeid Karume, met with CUF secretary Seif Sharif Hamad, who is currently the first vice president of Zanzibar, at the State House to discuss how to save Zanzibar from future political turmoil and to end the backlash between them.

The sister of Ong Sum Ping and Sultan Ahmad gave birth to a daughter, who married Sultan Sharif Aliسلطان شريف علي ( so he was Sayyidina-سيدنا ); the man came from Arabian Peninsulaالشبة الجزيرة العربية, and was the descendant of Nabi Muhammad SAWالنبي محمد.

On the journey, his Bedouin guide is killed by Sherif Ali ( Omar Sharif ) for drinking from a well without permission.

Guinness said in interviews that he developed his Arab accent from a conversation he had with Omar Sharif.

While accompanying Thomas Kavanaugh on his daring escape from Lucknow, he paused for a quick rattle with a local prostitute, and during the battle of Patusan, he found himself galloping one of Sharif Sahib's concubines without even realizing it.

The island possibly features on a map from 1153 AD by Al Sharif el-Edrisi.

The militants were not willing to accept orders from Sharif while the NLI soldiers withdrew.

Ismaïl Ibn Sharif receiving ambassador François Pidou de Saint Olon from Louis XIV of France, by Pierre-Denis Martin ( 1663-1742 ) | Pierre-Denis Martin ( 1693 )

During his rule, Brooke faced threats from Sarawak warriors like Sharif Masahor and Rentap, but remained in power.

In 1925 the forces of Ibn Saud captured the holy city of Mecca from Sharif Hussein bin Ali, ending 700 years of Hashemite rule.

At Victoria College on El Iqbal Street, Former Bulgarian King and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha attended classes along with schoolmates such as King Hussein of Jordan, Zaid Al Rifai, the Kashoggi brothers ( whose father was one of Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud's physicians ), Kamal Adham ( who ran the Saudi external intelligence directorate under King Faisal ), scholar Edward Said, present-day Saudi businessmen Mohammed Al Attas, the Shobokshi brothers and Ghassan Shaker — and actor Omar Sharif.

An alarmed Sher Ali attempted to appeal in person to the tsar for assistance, but unable to do so, he returned to Mazari Sharif, where he died on 21 February 1879.

He next travelled to Ajmer, where he visited the palace of Akbar and the Dargah Sharif.

After the bodies of young women began to turn up in the desert surrounding Juárez, Sharif was arrested and imprisoned, serving a 60 year sentence for murder in a maximum-security jail in the state capital of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, where he eventually died of natural causes in a local hospital.

The modern-day town of Jalalpur Sharif, outside Jhelum, is said to be where Bucephalus is buried.

He deposed the Sharif of Hejaz, Ali bin Hussein, who fled to Baghdad, eventually settling in Amman, Jordan, where his descendants became part of its Hashemite royalty.

Following the Washington accord on 4 July, where Sharif agreed to withdraw Pakistani troops, most of the fighting came to a gradual halt, but some Pakistani forces remained in positions on the Indian side of the LOC.

After the loss of Mecca, Sharif Ali's parents settled in Iraq where Badia's sister was queen consort.

An alarmed Sher Ali attempted to appeal in person to the Russian Tsar for assistance, but unable to do so, he returned to Mazari Sharif, where he died on 21 February 1879.

After years in Boston, in the USA, from where he assisted clients in Europe, the Pacific Rim and the United States with their international business strategies, Sharif settled in East Sussex, on the English coast.

In 1899 he went to Phulwari Sharif ( Bihar ) where he became a disciple of Maulana Mohiuddin and Sulaiman Phulwari.

Uch Sharif ( a nearby ancient town ) had one of the largest universities in the world where scholars from all over the world used to come for studies.

The murder of a prostitute in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1942 draws Abwehr Major Grau ( Omar Sharif ) into an investigation where the evidence points to the killer being one of three German general officers: General von Seydlitz-Gabler ( Charles Gray ), General Kahlenberg ( Donald Pleasence ), his chief of staff, and General Tanz ( Peter O ' Toole ).

He started studying Physics at Sharif University in 1989 where he earned his Ph. D. after 4 years.

The small town of Jalalpur Sharif is located in Pind Dadan Khan and is said to be where Alexander the Great's famous horse, Bucephalus is buried.

Maqbara Shaikh Husain, houses the tomb of Khwaja Husain Chishty Rehamatullah Alaih ( Shaikh Husain Ajmeri ) who was the Peer of Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Emperor Akbar's Time, He was the great grandson of Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishty Rehmatullah Alaih, his tomb was built in 1637-1638 by Khwaja Alauddin Chishty and Sajjadanashin Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin

In the 19th century there was a province in Afghanistan named Turkestan Province until abolished by Abdur Rahman, and was centred on Mazari Sharif and included territory in the modern provinces of Balkh, Jowzjan, Faryab and Sar-e Pol.

Goren's longest partnership was with Helen Sobel, but he also famously partnered actor Omar Sharif.

Sharif also wrote introductions to or co-authored several of Goren's bridge books, and was also co-author of Goren's newspaper column, eventually taking it over in collaboration with Tannah Hirsch.

Admiral Abdelkader Perez was sent by Ismail Ibn Sharif as ambassador to England in 1723.

During the 1980s Soviet war, Mazari Sharif was a strategic base for the Soviet Army, as they used its airport to launch air strikes on Afghan mujahideen.

Following 9 / 11, Mazar Sharif was the first Afghan city to fall to the Northern Alliance ( United Front ).

Following the Battle of Mecca ( 1924 ), the Sharif of Mecca was overthrown by the Saud family, and Mecca was incorporated into Saudi Arabia.

The Sword of Osman was girded on to the new sultan by the Sharif of Konya, a Mevlevi dervish, who was summoned to Constantinople for that purpose.

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.

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.

Sharif and Musharraf dispute on who was responsible for the Kargil conflict and Pakistan's withdrawal.

Sharif was put under house arrest and later exiled to Saudi Arabia on his personal request and under a contract.

Sharif was placed in Adiala Jail, infamous for hosting Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's trial, and his leading defense lawyer, Iqbal Raad, was shot dead in Karachi in mid-March.