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	Pervez Musharraf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General elections were held in October, 2002 and a plurality of the seats in the Parliament were won by the PML-Q, a pro-Musharraf party consisting of feudal landlords whose power and hold on politics Musharraf had promised to destroy.
		Musharraf's elder brother, Javed Musharraf, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, was a CSP officer in the Government of Pakistan prior to retiring from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, Italy.
		Musharraf has also launched a major military offensive in the tribal region of Wana, displacing many resident families in the hunt for militants, and has caused a national insurgency movement made up of disaffected militants and former residents of Wana whose homes were demolished by the army in its heavy bombing campaign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pervez_Musharraf (3179 words)

	General Pervez Musharraf, Indian Airforce
		Pervez Musharraf, the second of three brothers, was born to an educated Syed family on August 11, 1943 in Delhi.
		On promotion to the rank of Major General on 15th January 1991, he was given the command of an Infantry Division and later of a prestigious strike Corps as Lieutenant General on 21st October 1995.
		General Pervez Musharraf was promoted to the rank of General on 7th October 1998 and appointed Chief of Army Staff.
	www.geocities.com /siafdu/musharraf.html (680 words)

	Biography of General Pervez Musharraf: His Past and Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Musharraf has since then spent seven years in two tenures with the SSG and prides himself on being an SSG commando and projects himself as the greatest expert of the Pakistan Army in mountain warfare.
		Musharraf transported a large number of Wahabi Pakhtoon tribesmen from the NWFP and Afghanistan, commanded by bin Laden, to Gilgit to teach the Shias a lesson.
		Musharraf started a policy of bringing in Punjabis and Pakhtoons from outside and settling them down in Gilgit and Baltistan in order to reduce the Kashmiri Shias to a minority in their traditional land and this is continuing till today.
	www.angelfire.com /al4/terror/musharraf.htm (2706 words)

	Pervez Musharraf
		Musharraf was born in Daryaganj in Delhi, India, but moved with his parents to Karachi, Pakistan during the partition of India (1947).
		General elections were held in October, 2002 and a pro-Musharraf party, the PML-Q, won a plurality of the seats in the Parliament.
		Musharraf's emotional ties to the United States may be conjectured to be significant since at least two close members of his family live there: his brother, a doctor, lives in Chicago, and his son lives in Boston.
	pervez.musharraf.net /Pervez_Musharraf.htm (2778 words)

	Pakistan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the 1970 general election the separatist Awami League, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Sheikh Mujib), won the majority of the East Pakistan seats in the national assembly, while Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won a clear majority in the West.
		In the October 1993 general election Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as prime minister for a second time after the PPP and its allies secured a narrow victory over the PML, led by Sharif.
		To forestall a general strike, called to protest against the US bombing of Afghanistan, the government ordered the Islamic leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed to be detained in a government rest house for a month.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pakistan (5721 words)

	Pakistan Facts - General Pervez Musharraf
		General Musharraf's mother hailed from a conservative family but with the support of her progressive father she was able to get an education.
		General Musharraf used the opportunity to rebuild ties to the Pakistani political spectrum and met with elements of the POK political milieu.
		General Musharraf has long craved the power to change society on an arbitrarily short timescale; this symbolism is a way of expressing it in a `palatable' (to western audiences) way.
	www.pakistan-facts.com /staticpages/index.php?page=20021121101525217 (7906 words)

	Cover Story: Pakistan, General in Trouble
		The inability of the general to address the issues of a return to democracy, terrorism, slow movement on the economic front and a growing feeling that the army is not equipped to govern the Pakistani nation, have all contributed to the view that Musharraf is in trouble.
		Musharraf is caught in the midst of hawks who are pressing him to show America the door and continue with the low-intensity conflict in Kashmir.
		General Beg feels that Musharraf should strengthen the country's ties with China, Iran and Afghanistan but it would be difficult for him to cold shoulder the West especially since he has to reschedule loans with the IMF by the year-end and America can influence the outcome.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/20000410/cover.html (2899 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| President Pervez Musharraf
		Pervez Musharraf was born in Delhi in August 1943.
		Gen Musharraf rose to the top job in 1998 when Pakistan's powerful army chief, Gen Jehangir Karamat, resigned two days after calling for the army to be given a key role in the country's decision-making process.
		President Musharraf's position was a difficult one, caught between the need to accommodate US interests and prevent a radicalisation of Muslim groups at home.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1742997.stm (1221 words)

	CNN.com - Musharraf: Iraq war has made world 'less safe' - Dec 6, 2004
		Musharraf was in Washington on Saturday for a brief meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush and is now in London for talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday.
		Musharraf urged the United States to work toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he described as "the heart of all the problems" in the Middle East.
		Musharraf added that he thinks bin Laden's control of his terrorist network is diminished, because the communication network needed to maintain control would likely be under surveillance and thus not used, and because the al Qaeda command structure "is broken, as far as the Pakistan side is concerned."
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/12/05/musharraf.cnn (799 words)

	'Musharraf planned Kargil when I was PM' : Bhutto
		Ms Bhutto confirmed that when she was Prime Minister, General Musharraf had presented the same blueprint for an invasion of Kargil in the shape of a 'war-game'.
		In the event, General Musharraf went ahead with the Kargil invasion after she was ousted from office and he became Army Chief.
		Ms Bhutto suggests that the General refused to accept the bodies of dead Pakistani soldiers for fear of having to admit that it was an official army operation that went disastrously wrong.
	www.hvk.org /articles/1101/227.html (876 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Profile: General Pervez Musharraf
		President Pervez Musharraf is facing his gravest test as ruler of Pakistan since seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1999.
		General Musharraf rose to the top job in 1998 when Pakistan's powerful army chief, General Jehangir Karamat, resigned two days after calling for the army to be given a key role in the country's decision-making process.
		General Musharraf was the first senior figure to acknowledge that Pakistani troops had entered the Indian-administered sector during the fighting.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/472997.stm (678 words)

	A General Turn Around
		The General, who was on an official visit to Washington, was to leave for home, but was left stranded, as all airports had been closed.
		The general, who was known for his hard-line pro-Taliban position, glanced through the paper for a few seconds and replied: "They are all acceptable to us." The swift response took Armitage by surprise.
		Lt General Aziz, corps commander Lahore, Lt General Jamshed Gulzar, corps commander Rawalpindi, Lt General Mushtaq, corps commander Quetta, and Lt. General Usmani, deputy chief of army staff, were among those who expressed their strong reservations over the shift in Pakistan's policy on the Taliban.
	www.newsline.com.pk /NewsFeb2003\cover1feb2003.htm (2184 words)

	General’s dilemma: to soldier on or go public - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
		If General Pervez Musharraf means what he says in calling for a national debate on ways to resolve Pakistan’s dispute with India over Kashmir, he might be taking the most far reaching initiative of his military and political career.
		That the General is conflicted in what he declares to be his vision and what he feels he needs to do to stay in power has been obvious for quite some time.
		Musharraf’s call upon Pakistanis to look at possible solutions for Kashmir would work only if the General is willing to put it into the broader context of Pakistan’s structural flaws.
	www.carnegieendowment.org /publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=16057 (990 words)

	The Survival Agenda of General Musharraf
		In all these cases, the general refused to accept the bodies of his soldiers and citizens as this would have proved his country's involvement on the side of the aggressor.
		Therefore, much need not be read in the utterances of the general against these terrorist groups and in his lament that intolerance not only against other religions but also against other sects of Islam is giving a bad name to his country.
		Musharraf, in spite of his initial public denials to the contrary, agreed to the use of Pakistan's soil by American troops thinking it would give him leverage against India.
	www.kashmirherald.com /featuredarticle/survivalagendaofgeneralmusharraf-prn.html (1365 words)

	Pervez Musharraf,
		Musharraf claimed Sharif failed to rescue the country sinking amid corruption and instability.
		Pervez Musharraf, - Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, proved to be an invaluable ally of the United States in...
		Pervez Musharraf - Musharraf, Pervez, 1943–, Pakistani army officer, president of Pakistan (2001–), b.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0781580.html (278 words)

	General on a Tightrope
		Musharraf said on May 4, 2002, that the killers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl must face punishment in Pakistan despite a U.S. extradition request as an example for those defying his crackdown on terrorism and sectarian violence.
		General Pervez Musharraf — the last in a line of military rulers who have governed Pakistan for 26 of its 53 independent years — rose from obscurity in the army, in the fall of 1998, when Prime Minister Nawaz Sherif promoted him over a number of other generals to become Chief of the Army Staff.
		Pervez Musharraf is a difficult man to describe, for each time I saw him, he looked astonishingly different, depending on whom he was seeing, where he was, and the mood in which he had dressed that day.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF2003/Weaver/Weaver.html (1867 words)

	CNN.com - General Pervez Musharraf, President and Chief Executive of Pakistan - June 28, 2001
		Married to Sehba Musharraf with one son and one daughter, both of who are married.
		After a long and distinguished career in Pakistan's military forces, Musharraf achieved the rank of General on October 7th, and was appointed Chief of Army Staff.
		Musharraf has promised to restore civilian rule when a mandate given to him by the Supreme Court expires in October 2002.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/06/20/musharraf.biog (466 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		The other option for Musharraf is to go easy on Khan, such as by pardoning him, and attempt to spread some of the blame on to lesser figures not in a position to tell too many nasty tales.
		Initially, Musharraf appears to have taken the first route, hence Khan's confession given to the media late on Sunday, and stories fed to the media by a brigadier in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of the murky underworld of proliferation in which Khan was the key figure.
		It is clear that Musharraf and his team of ruling generals have decided to make Dr Qadeer Khan and a few other scientists scapegoats for something that the military-intelligence complex probably did as an institution...
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FB05Df05.html (1350 words)

	General Musharraf Versus President Bush
		What Musharraf was hinting to his people, and he has been able to convince them, that he was only hedging to gain time and let pass the accumulated rage of America.
		Musharraf will convince Powell that his boys are prepared to make extreme sacrifice, not only of their lives but also their faith, in the line of duty for a brave new world of secular democracies.
		General Pervez Musharraf is capable of charming the Americans into believing his new found love for secularism and democracy.
	www.jammu-kashmir.com /insights/insight20011001a.html (1670 words)

	INDOlink - International News - General Musharraf Hints At Joining ‘Active Politics’
		Musharraf immediately replied he was "considering." Then he hastened to add the "doors are open." "I can consider it (politics).
		Musharraf said it was incorrect to indict the NAB for political targeting.
		Musharraf said the NAB is moving in the right direction and there is a need to keep up the momentum.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=042204101028 (833 words)

	International Crisis Group - The myth of the good general (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In response to the Islamabad attack General Musharraf sacked the top echelon of Islamabad's police force, and he and his ministers reiterated their vow to battle terrorism.
		The Pakistan army remains highly disciplined and Musharraf should be taken at his word when he emphasises that the ISI remains under firm military control.
		General Musharraf is making an attempt to extend his military rule indefinitely under the guise of a quasi-democracy.
	www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=2241&l=1 (971 words)

	Buddha, Taliban & Gen. Musharraf
		Musharraf promised to Mr.Bill Clinton, the then US President, last year that he would himself personally go to Kandahar, the headquarters of Mulla Mohammad Omar, the Amir of the Taliban and the Pol Pot of Afghanistan, and persuade the Taliban to deport bin Laden and moderate its activities.
		The intention of the Taliban Amir to destroy everything associated with Buddhism would have been known to the General, before the decision was announced, through the ISI officers in the Taliban's Intelligence Department, but he chose not to act against the Taliban.
		Musharraf, who was twice punished in the Army--once while under training in 1964 and again later-- for indiscipline and insubordination, might not have risen so far up in the Army but for the successes of these jehadi organisations and the Taliban, the credit for which redounded to him.
	www.saag.org /papers3/paper208.htm (1323 words)

	Get Pakistan.Com: Gen. Musharraf's Profile
		General has always loved the outdoors and spends most of his leisure time playing Squash, Badminton or Golf.
		The General also takes keen interest in water sports, is an enthusiastic canoeist and loves to sail.
		January 1991, he was given the command of an Infantry Division and later of a prestigious strike Corps as Lieutenant General on 21st October 1995.
	www.getpakistan.com /home/celebrity/celeb_mush.htm (452 words)

	The travails of General Musharraf
		Unfortunately for the Pakistanis, their speeches were made at a time President Pervez Musharraf was delivering a belligerent and uncompromising address to his people and to the world, claiming that "we are not allowing any infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC)".
		On June 2, the OIC Secretary General for the first time condemned terrorism in all its forms and called on the world community to act decisively to prevent the escalation of India-Pakistan tensions.
		Musharraf's rhetoric of May 27, Munir Akram's threat of nuclear war, Musharraf's subsequent retraction of this threat and the missile tests were all attempts at psychological warfare by a military ruler.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0602/53.html (1108 words)

	PABE :: Pakistani American Business Executive Association
		General Pervez Musharraf, the second of three brothers, was born to an educated Syed family on August 11, 1943 in Delhi.
		The General also takes keen interest in water sports, is a enthusiastic canoeist and loves to sail.
		General Pervez Musharraf took oath as President of Pakistan on June 20, 2001.
	www.pabe.org /GeneralPervezMusharraf.htm (546 words)

	General Musharraf's fading mystique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Musharraf himself shows no sign of recognizing that the economic and military race with India is a losing proposition and that Pakistan’s friends such as the United States are fair-weather, and cannot be counted on in the contest with India.
		Initially Musharraf cast himself in the mould of a realist but in recent months he has appeared as insufficiently convinced of the realist position or tilting towards the ideologues, at least on the question of India.
		General Musharraf cannot move forward with the India-Pakistan peace process, or for that matter go beyond symbolic gestures towards Israel, because his institutional mandate from the Pakistani military does not go beyond such gestures.
	www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=55485 (1053 words)

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