Pakistan’s last military dictator, General (retd) Pervez Musharraf is admired as well as loathed across the country in equal proportion. What controversalize his career was the seizure of power through coup in 1999. He served as president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.
Pervez Musharraf was born on August 11, 1943, New Delhi, India.
Musharraf moved with his family from New Delhi to Karachi in 1947, when Pakistan was separated from India.
The son of a career diplomat, he lived in Turkey during 1949–56. He joined the army in 1964, graduated from the Army Command and Staff College in Quetta, and attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. He held a number of appointments in the artillery, the infantry, and commando units and also taught at the Staff College in Quetta and in the War Wing of the National Defence College. He fought in Pakistan’s 1965 and 1971 wars with India. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed him head of the armed forces in October 1998. Musharraf is believed to have played a key role in the invasion of the Indian-administered portion of the disputed Kashmir region in the summer of 1999. Under international pressure, Sharif later ordered the troops to pull back to Pakistani-controlled territory, a move that angered the military.
The early part of his rule was dominated by questions of foreign policy, particularly tensions with India over Kashmir.
Then came the events of 11 September 2001 that became the defining feature of his presidency, leading to a dramatic change in Pakistan’s relations with the rest of the world.
His support for US President George W Bush’s “war on terror” earned him unpopularity at home. Mr Musharraf left the country in 2008 under the shadow of impeachment after losing power in elections.
During his time in self-imposed exile in London and Dubai, the former president is believed to have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars on worldwide lecture tours. But he has never made any secret that his main ambition was to return to power in his homeland.
The poor performance of Musharraf’s party in the February 2008 parliamentary elections was widely seen as a rejection of the president and his rule. The elections yielded an opposition coalition headed by Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who had been assassinated in December 2007.
In October 2010, after a period of self-imposed exile, Musharraf announced the formation of a new political party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, and vowed to return to Pakistan in time for the 2013 national elections. He did so in March 2013, but his bid to stand in elections faced a variety of legal and political obstacles.
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Currently he is out of country amid several cases pending in courts against him at home. The former president has indicted his return before the elections.
Pervez Musharraf – Height, Age, Political Party, Net worth and Education
| Complete Name | Pervez Musharraf |
| Age | 75 years |
| Born | August 11, 1943 (age 75 years), Old Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Political Paty | All Pakistan Muslim League |
| Height | 1.82 m |
| Books | In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Agnipath Meri Atmakatha |
| Education | Royal College of Defence Studies (1990–1991), MORE |
| Net worth | ₨645 million (US$6.1 million) (2013) |
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