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  Cursory glance at Ghulam Ishaq Khan’s life
Khan reportedly vetoed the appointment of former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Hamid Gul as Army Chief, appointing the moderately reformist general Asif Nawaz Khan Janjua instead.
Khan's presidency also saw the resignation of General Rahimuddin Khan from the post of Governor of Sindh, due to differences between the two after Khan started restricting Rahimuddin's vast amount of legislative power.
The second dismissal of government exacerbated institutional and political opposition to Khan, leading to his resignation in 1993, and later to a constitutional amendment that reduced the Presidency to a figurehead.
www.thenews.com.pk /update_detail.asp?id=11926   (377 words)

  
  Ghulam Ishaq Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khan was born on January 20, 1915 in the North-West Frontier Province.
Khan reportedly vetoed the appointment of former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Hamid Gul as Army Chief, appointing the moderately reformist general Asif Nawaz Khan Janjua instead.
Khan's presidency was also marked by his use of Eighth Amendment reserve powers to check the government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghulam_Ishaq_Khan   (323 words)

  
 GHULAM ISHAQ KHAN FACTS AND INFORMATION
Immediately after the death of Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq in 1988, Khan became acting President in accordance with the Constitutional rules of succession, and was formally elected to the position in December of that year.
Khan reportedly vetoed the appointment of former Inter-Services_Intelligence (ISI) Chief Hamid Gul as Army Chief, appointing the moderately reformist general Asif_Nawaz_Khan_Janjua instead.
While the Prime Minister is the Head_of_Government, Khan was able to dismiss the governments of both Benazir_Bhutto and Nawaz_Sharif on charges of corruption, mismanagement, and nepotism, thereby triggering new elections, which the incumbent parties lost.
www.askacouple.com /Ghulam_Ishaq_Khan   (252 words)

  
 Asif Nawaz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asif Nawaz's tenure as Chief of Army Staff was ended abruptly by his death on 8 January 1993, apparently from a heart attack.
Nawaz had begun to feel upset at many of Nawaz Sharif's moves, most significantly his attempts to create rifts within the Army.
Nuzhat Janjua suspected that her late husband had been poisoned by arsenic administered in a cup of tea served to him at a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee meeting.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asif_Nawaz_Khan_Janjua   (542 words)

  
 Wahid Kakar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wahid Kakar was Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan.President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came into public on the appointment of the Chief of Army staff after the sudden death of General Asif Nawaz in January 1993.
Nawaz Sharif wanted to place his own candidate in the vacant position, against the wishes of both the army and the President.
It was Kakar who forced Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Nawaz Sharif to hand over their resignations at the height of the crisis in 1993.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wahid_Kakar   (267 words)

  
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The Janjua Rajput is a branch of the ancient Vedic Aryan conquerors of India belonging to the Lunar Race or Chandra Vansh.
Historically during the Mughal Period, the rule of the Janjua was recorded by the great Mughal Emporer Babur in his 'Baburnama' (chronicles) as brotherly and friendly to their subjects and therefore they were left to continue their rule with tributary status.
Famous Generals of the Pakistani army Raja Asif Nawaz Khan Janjua and General Tikka Khan were both Janjuas.The famous politician Raja Zafar-ul-haq who is the Chairman of Pakistan Muslim League Party is a Janjua from Raja Kala Khan.
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 Encyclopedia: Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In May 1988 he himself sacked Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo and dissolved the elected assemblies while President Ghulam Ishaq Khan sacked Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and disbanded the national and provincial assemblies,later doing the same again with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Muhammad Khan Junejo;Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo (born August 18, 1932) was former Pakistani Prime Minister.
Benazir Bhutto; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (born June 21, 1953) became the first woman to lead a Muslim country in modern times when she was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, only to be deposed 20 months later by the President of...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Muhammad-Zia_ul_Haq   (2136 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ghulam Ishaq Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Nawaz Sharif (born December 25, 1949) was twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms.
The Constitution (Thirteenth Amendment) Act, 1997 was an amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan passed in 1997 by the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK) Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology - GIKI is one of the premier institutes of higher learning in Pakistan.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ghulam-Ishaq-Khan   (1059 words)

  
 The Subcontinent
President Ghulani Ishaque Khan misses no opportunity to remind the prime minister that the political vehicle left behind by the late General Zia has three steering wheels, the third one being in the hands of the army chief of staff.
He belongs to that Urduspeaking segment of the population, called Muhajirs, that had migrated to Pakistan at the time of the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 and was still striving to be fully accepted in the mainstream.
Janjua, a Sandhurst trained officer from Punjab, does not seem suited to taking a back seat, nor is he likely to relinquish any extra power that may have devolved on the office of the commander-in-chief in recent years.
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 1993   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Is this the birth of Nawaz the populist?
Nawaz accuses Ishaq of forging a presidential letter authorizing the Governor Punjab to take over the province and invite the Rangers to take action against the provincial government.
On the face of it, Benazir Bhutto seems to have won the game with 86 seats for her PPP against 72 for Nawaz Sharif's PML, but the narrow margin means that the task ahead is bound to be an uphill one.
www.pakistanarchives.com /93.htm   (1185 words)

  
 Nawaz Sharif - Definition, explanation
Nawaz Sharif became politically prominent after General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq declared martial law over Pakistan in 1977.
Sharif was removed from office on July 18, 1993, having been accused of corruption, by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who replaced him with caretaker Prime Minister Moin Qureshi, succeeded shortly thereafter by Benazir Bhutto, who was elected to office on October 19, 1993.
The general election of February 1997 saw Nawaz Sharif’s party sweeping back into power with such a huge majority that the result was immediately questioned by the PPP.
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Mianwali Arrow PPPP 2 Col(R) Muhammad Hassan Khan Ghundi, Tehsil & Distt.
M.B.Din 2 Ahmad Khan alias Ahmad Fraz Mangat Mangat Tehsil & Distt.
Bicycle PML-QA 2 Muhammad Nawaz Javid Bhatti Chak No.22/GH Tehsil Kabirwala District Khanewal.
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 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 101   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Asif Nawaz Janjua would have certainly left his imprint on the nation if his COAS term had not been cut short because of his unfortunate demise.
Generally an unsung hero of democracy, Waheed Kakar was a genuine soldier through and through, he must be lauded for (1) putting democracy back on the rails and not succumbing to temptation, (2) disengaging the Army from Karachi and (3) reining back the ISI from its deep involvement in Afghanistan to a lesser inter-action, thankfully.
Both Ayub Khan and Ziaul Haq are primary examples that a Presidential form of government was built to suit one man, such a system cannot succeed anywhere in the third world.
www.thedailystar.net /2003/09/04/d30904020426.htm   (1179 words)

  
 Remembering our warriors - Maj Gen (Retd) Hidayatullah Khan Niazi - A. H. AMIN
I requested the Corp Commander Gen Asif Nawaz not to accede to this demand and he kindly agreed.
Asif Nawaz was an extremely mission-oriented man. He told us what he wanted but not how to do it.
Later once Mian Nawaz Sharif amended the original plan to Lahore instead of Multan as originally intended, the length of the motorway became toll wise unprofitable since it was a longer route to Lahore as compared with the existing Lahore-Islamabad road.
www.defencejournal.com /2001/august/gen-niazi.htm   (8829 words)

  
 1915-2006: Ghulam Ishaq Khan Dead : ALL THINGS PAKISTAN
Khan, a career bureaucrat, was a close ally of Haq and held the post of chairman of Pakistan’s Senate when Haq was killed in a plane crash in eastern Pakistan along with then U.S. Ambassador Arnold L. Raphel and several top Pakistani generals.
Khan, an ethnic-Pashtun born in northwestern Pakistan’s Bannu district, is survived by his wife, four daughters and one son.
SAJID ALI KHAN, Sada, Mahmood, Adnan Siddiqi, Reluctant Expatriate [...]
pakistaniat.com /2006/10/27/ghulam-ishaq-khan-dead   (1430 words)

  
 Chapter9a
Their Lordships concluded that President Ghulam Ishaq Khan had ceased to be a neutral and had aligned himself with the elements which were trying to destablize the Nawaz government.
Nawaz Sharif was the real loser in the power struggle, but for this he has to largely blame himself.
In the case of Mian Nawaz Sharif, the responsibility increases manifold because he allowed his own family concern to borrow from these co-ops while he was in power, when he was legally and morally bound to check the activities of these co-ops.
www.ghazali.net /book/Chapter9a/chapter9a.html   (3197 words)

  
 ISI - Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence Agency - A State within a State
Clearly, caretaker President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and the COAS General Beg were not keen on Benazir winning the elections and they used all the resources at their command namely the ISI, the MI, the IB and the police special branches to thwart her political victory.
It was reported that General Janjua had serious differences with President Ishaq Khan a week before his death after being questioned over a raid conducted by an army team to arrest a district and sessions judge for allegedly accepting illegal gratification in Karachi in ' President's Differences With Asif Nawaz' POT Pakistan, vol.
Ayub Khan, suspecting the loyalty and objectivity of the Bengali police officers in the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of the IB in Dacca, the capital of the then East Pakistan, entrusted the ISI with the responsibility for the collection of internal political intelligence in East Pakistan.
www.freedomfiles.org /war/isi.htm   (18543 words)

  
 wiki/Ghulam Ishaq Khan Definition / wiki/Ghulam Ishaq Khan Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (born January 20January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
Khan's presidency was also marked by his use of Eighth Amendment reserve powersA reserve power is a power that may be exercised by the head of state of a country in certain exceptional circumstances.
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences is named for him, it is located in Topi The Topi, or Tsessebe, as it is called in Southern Africa, (Damaliscus lunatus also known as Tiang or Korrigum) is a savannah and floodplain antelope found in Sudan, Chad, Kenya, Tanzania, and Southern Africa....
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 Keesing's Worldwide Online - Hot Topics: Afghanistan - King Mohammed Zahir Shah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Asif Nawaz Janjua, Chief of Staff since August 1991, had moved swiftly to alter the pro-Hekmatyar strategy of his predecessor Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg.
In early January 1992 Gen. Nawaz made clear his intention to promote a peaceful settlement of the conflict, attending a meeting in Rome with representatives of ex-King Zahir Shah (an initiative which was condemned by Hekmatyar).
Nawaz also apparently warned the current ISI head, Gen. Assad Durrani, to halt covert aid to all mujaheddin factions.
www.keesings.com /hot_topics/afghanistan_zahir   (2047 words)

  
 CIVIL MILITARY RELATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY PAKISTAN - 4
In May 1992, when Nawaz Sharif was Prime Minister, the Army resumed a security operation in Sindh under Article 147 of the Constitution which Bhutto inherited when she assumed power.
Nawaz Sharif was appointed to the Punjab provincial cabinet during martial law.
The President also referred to the charge levelled by General Janjua's widow that her husband was poisoned, alleging that the pro-government elements could be involved because Janjua had developed differences with the Sharif government.
www.defencejournal.com /july98/civilmilitary4.htm   (1520 words)

  
 Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Ghulam Ishaq Khan taking oath as the President of Pakistan In 1988, President Zia-ul-Haq dissolved the Junejo Government and announced that fresh elections would be held in November 1988.
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Ghulam Ishaq Khan was born on January 20, 1915, in Ismail Khel Bannu District, N. He did his graduation in Chemistry and Botany and joined N. Civil Service in 1940.
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (abbreviated as GIK) (Urdu/Pashto: was President of Pakistan from August 17, 1988 until July 18, 1993.
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 Nawaz appoints new office-bearers: PML-N reorganization at dist, provincial level -DAWN - National; June 17, 2005
It may be mentioned that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on December 20 last year dissolved the party’s Central Working Committee (CWC) and all the provincial and district bodies and announced that the party would be reorganized within 90 days to get best possible results in the next general elections.
Giving justification for the delay, Mr Jhagra and party’s information secretary Siddiqul Farooque had stated that it was the desire of Nawaz Sharif to announce the names of office- bearers in all the provinces and districts in one go.
Sources told Dawn that the delay was because of the fact that Nawaz Sharif had been facing great difficulties in finalizing the names of the office-bearers due to strong groupings in the party.
www.dawn.com /2005/06/17/nat2.htm   (640 words)

  
 Pakistan - The Armed Forces in a New World Order   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
She became prime minister under a constitution that left great power in the hands of the president, her parliamentary majority was narrow, and the army was strong, self-confident, and unwilling to renounce its political role.
Beg's replacement, General Asif Nawaz Janjua, was a much lower-profile leader and sought to lead the army away from corruption and toward a renewed emphasis on professionalism and a sensible adaptation to the post-Cold War realities of Pakistan's strategic position.
General Janjua died suddenly in January 1993, and President Ishaq Khan used his prerogative to reach well down the list of lieutenant generals to appoint Abdul Waheed, a highly regarded officer without apparent political aspirations.
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 General Pervez Musharraf: His Past and Present
The late Gen.Asif Nawaz Janjua, the then COAS, recalled him to Rawalpindi and wanted to dismiss him for launching the attack without his orders, but Lt.Gen. Nasir saved him from any punishment.
Pakistani analysts were surprised when Mr.Sharif appointed Gen.Musharraf as the COAS on October 8,1998, superseding Lt.Gen. Ali Kuli Khan, a Pakhtoon, who was the CGS, and Lt. Gen.
Khalid Nawaz, a Punjabi, who was the Quarter-Master General.
www.subcontinent.com /sapra/research/military/img_1999_07_001s.html   (2582 words)

  
 Pakistan News & Views briefly | despardes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mr Asif Zardari further said that the government would cancel the elections for the local bodies and announce fresh general elections latest by July 2005.
Asif Ali Zardari was arrested Tuesday just before he was to address a major opposition rally that could have been politically embarrassing to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who has come under criticism for reneging on his vow to give up his post as head of the army.
Zardari denies plotting the 1996 slayings of a former judge and his son -- one of a series of cases against him that supporters contend are politically motivated.
www.despardes.com /pakistan/newsbriefs/dec04/11.html   (1836 words)

  
 Article Tariq Jawaid 23 September 2004
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto used to call himself the son of General Ayub Khan and was also a member of his cabinet as a foreign minister and the minister for natural resources.
As a result of these elections, Mohammad Khan Junejo became the prime minister of Pakistan but was removed in 1988, by General Zia ul Haq (hero of religious parties).
In 1992, Nawaz Sharif started the army operation against the MQM with the help of COAS General Asif Nawaz Janjua.
www.mqm.org /English-News/Sep-2004/art040924.htm   (1458 words)

  
 The Nuclear Jihad
Bashiruddin was the first head of the Kahuta uranium enrichment project before AQ Khan replaced him in the 1970s.
Zia, Benazir, Nawaz, Beg, Gen Asif Nawaz Janjua [who succeeded Beg], Gen Abdul Waheed Kakkar, his successor, and Gen Jehangir Karamat, his successor and Musharraf’s predecessor, were all privy to the clandestine nuclear/missile relationship with Iran, Libya and North Korea.
After 9/11, when there was considerable speculation about the dangers of Pak’s WMDs falling into the hands of Al Qaeda, he asserted on innumerable occasions that Pakistan’s nuclear capability was in the secure hands of the military and that there was no question of its leakage to anybody outside Pakistan.
www.kashmirherald.com /featuredarticle/nuclearjihad.html   (2210 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | Top Story: Pakistan's Ex-President: Ghulam Ishaq Khan passes away
Khan's son-in-law, Arfanullah Murwat told a private television channel that the former Pakistan had been ill for the past three months.
Khan died at his residence in University Town at 1000 am.
Ghulam Ishaq Khan was born on January 20, 1915, in Ismail Khel Bannu District, N. He did his graduation in Chemistry and Botany and joined NWFP Civil Service in 1940.
www.pakistantimes.net /2006/10/28/top.htm   (729 words)

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