Pervez Musharraf is a Pakistani politician and retired four-star general of the Pakistan Army. He served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 until his resignation in 2008. He is also known for leading the 1999 Kargil War against India. He died in a Dubai hospital on February 5, 2023.
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He was born on Wednesday 11 August 1943 in Old Delhi, British India (age 79; time of death). Musharraf attended St. Patrick’s High School in Karachi. He served in the Artillery Corps from 1961 to 2007. Musharraf once commanded the 12th Army, 12th Army, Special Forces, Commander-in-Chief of Military Operations, 40th Army Division, Okara. Also known as “Cowboy”, “Marsh”, “Palu”, studied Mathematics at Forman Christian College, Lahore. Pervez obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1964 in the 29th PMA long-term course and pursued his master’s degree in 1990 from the Royal College of Defense Studies, UK. He also studied at Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, Abbottabad, Command and Staff College, Quetta, Balochistan. Pervez is a Sunni caste and his hobbies are reading and traveling.
address/house
Pervez Musharraf lives in Chakshahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan.
net worth
His net worth is approximately $6.1 million (as of 2013).
Favorites
- He enjoys reading and traveling.
- His favorite subjects are economics and mathematics.
- Pervez Musharraf’s favorite destination happens to be Dubai.
political tour
Pervez Musharraf is associated with two political parties, the All Pakistan Muslim League and the Pakistan Muslim League (Qaid e Azam Group). His political career began on October 12, 1999, when he led a coup against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and became head of government. On June 20, 2001, he appointed himself President of Pakistan. Then in August 2002, he introduced 29 amendments to the constitution, giving himself the power to dissolve parliament and remove the prime minister. On January 1, 2004, a vote of confidence in parliament allowed Musharraf to remain in power until 2007. Unofficial vote counts on October 6, 2007 showed that Musharraf won the presidential election in a landslide. On November 3, 2007, he declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, suspended the country’s constitution, and postponed the January 2008 elections. In November 2007, he resigned as commander of the Pakistan Army and was sworn in for the third time. On February 18, 2008, the Pakistan Muslim League-Q party led by Musharraf won third place in the parliamentary election. On August 18, 2008, he announced his resignation as President of Pakistan. On October 1, 2010, Musharraf established a new political party, the All Pakistan Muslim League.
Pervez Musharraf
family
Musharraf was born to Syed Musharrafuddin (Pakistani civil servant and diplomat) and his mother, Mrs. Zareen Musharraf. His brothers, Dr. Javed Musharraf (economist; lives in Rome), Dr. Naved Musharraf (anesthesiologist; lives in Illinois, USA).
He married Sehba from Karachi on December 28, 1968. Musharraf is survived by a son, Bilal Musharraf, and a daughter, Ayla Musharraf, an architect who is married to film director Asim Raza Raza)).
Pervez Musharraf and his wife
die
He died of amyloidosis at the American Hospital in Dubai on February 5, 2023. He was buried in a cemetery in Karachi.
dispute
- Pervez became President of Pakistan on June 20, 2001, in a bid to win the controversial referendum on May 1, 2002. His presidency saw the most controversial atomic scandal in Pakistan’s history after he authorized the arrest of two physicists, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Chowdhury. Abdul Majeed because of their perceived links to the Taliban.
Pervez Musharraf
- Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan once again stirred up controversy after he revealed the issue of atomic proliferation.
- In September 2005, Musharraf caused international and international concern when he stated in an interview with the Washington Post that women who were rape victims in Pakistan regarded rape as a “money-making thing” and that they did so to obtain Canadian visas. Controversy in Pakistan.
- He also stirred controversy by suspending then Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. On November 23, 2008, he went into exile in London after rejecting impeachment proceedings against him. He condemned the attack in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.
- On April 16, 2013, the Chitral Election Tribunal disqualified him from contesting the election, and 10 days later, the Islamabad High Court ordered Musharraf to be placed under house arrest over the death of Benazir Bhutto, on August 20, 2013. , a Pakistani court indicted Musharraf for assassinating Bhutto. An FIR was registered against Pervez Musharraf for his role in the 2007 Lal Masjid operation.
- On August 31, 2017, the Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court found him guilty of “absconding” in the Bhutto murder case.
- On December 17, 2019, he was sentenced to death by three judges of Pakistan’s Special Court for treason. Musharraf, who has lived in Dubai since March 2016, faces treason charges for suspending the constitution and imposing emergency rule in 2007, a punishable crime for which he was indicted in 2014.
fact
- Musharraf was born into a Sayyid aristocratic family in Delhi, British India. His family moved to Pakistan during the partition of India in 1947. That year, he was four years old.
- During his childhood, Musharraf was affectionately called “Palu” by his mother and other family members.
Pervez Musharraf and his mother
- “Neharwali Haveli” is the name of his ancestral home, which literally means “house by the canal”. Next door lived the family of Syed Ahmed Khan, an Indian Muslim pragmatist.
Nehawali Haveli by Pervez Musharraf
- His father was a Pakistani civil servant who later joined the Pakistan Foreign Ministry, and in 1949 he served as a diplomat in Türkiye. In 1956, the family returned to Pakistan.
- Musharraf studied mathematics at Foreman Christian College in Lahore and did very well. However, he later became interested in economics.
- He entered the Pakistan Military Academy when he was only 18 years old. While in college, Musharraf shared a room with PQ Mehdi of the Pakistan Air Force and Abdul Aziz Mirza of the Navy.
- After joining the Pakistan Army Artillery Regiment in 1964, his first battleship experience was fighting in the Khemkaran sector during the Second Kashmir War in 1965. For his gallantry in the war, he was awarded the Imtiaz Sanad Medal.
Imtiaz Sanad Medal
- On the recommendation of the Sialkot commander, Musharraf was admitted to the Special Forces School. There, he passed rigorous examinations and underwent grueling physical training.
- He subsequently joined the Special Services Group (SSG) for joint operations. Between 1966 and 1972, he was promoted initially to Army Captain and then to Major.
Pervez Musharraf’s first years in the army
- Musharraf was the company commander of the SSG Commando Battalion during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War between Pakistan and India.
- In the 1980s, he studied political science at the National Defense University and began working as an assistant professor of war studies at the Command and General Staff College. He then joined the National Defense University as an assistant professor of political science.
- Due to his extensive experience in mountain and arctic warfare, the then President of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff General Zia-ul-Haq promoted him to the rank of Brigade Commander of the new SSG Brigade and was appointed near the Siachen Glacier in 1987.
Pervez Musharraf at Siachen Glacier
- Musharraf served as a brigadier general from 1988 to 1989 and proposed to then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to infiltrate Kargil. But was rejected by the latter.
- In 1990 he began a master’s degree at the Royal College of Defense Studies under General Antony Walker. In 1991, Musharraf received high praise for his paper entitled “The Impact of the Arms Race in the Indo-Pak Subcontinent”.
- Promoted to the rank of major general in 1991.
- On October 7, 1998, he was appointed Army Chief of Staff with the rank of general.
- On April 9, 1999, he was appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- From December 14 to 25, 2003, two assassination attempts were made against Musharraf.
- In 2006, Musharraf published his autobiography, A Life on Fire: A Memoir.
- While in Türkiye, he got a dog named Whiskey, which led to his lifelong love of dogs.
- He has been living in self-imposed exile in Dubai since 2016.
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