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nothing is gonna happens
he's rather getting more and more famous.
i just hope that like khomeni we appoint him as a supreme leader
nothing is gonna happens
he's rather getting more and more famous.
i just hope that like khomeni we appoint him as a supreme leader
He was already famous for all wrong reasons..He cant get any more famous than this.nothing is gonna happens
he's rather getting more and more famous.
i just hope that like khomeni we appoint him as a supreme leader
A mohajir is only that much worth for a Punjabi Army. I thnk he was the only mohajir to be army chief.He was already famous for all wrong reasons..He cant get any more famous than this.
That is why the Supreme leader is already arrested and brought before so called justice
A mohajir is only that much worth for a Punjabi Army. I thnk he was the only mohajir to be army chief.
Only Gen Aslam Beg is a fellow Mohajir.General Sir Frank Messervy
August 15, 1947 – February 10, 1948
9th Hodson's Horse
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General Sir Douglas Gracey
February 11, 1948 – January 16, 1951
1st Gurkha Rifles
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Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan
January 16, 1951 – October 26, 1958
1/14 Punjab Regiment
Ayub Khan was born on 14 May 1907, in Haripur[8] British India, in the village of Rehana in the Haripur District in the Hazara region of the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa).[9] He was ethnically a Pashtun[10] (or Pathan[8]) of the Tareen tribe,[11] although a Hindko speaker. He was the first child of the second wife of Mir Dad Khan Tareen, who was a Risaldar-Major (senior regimental non-commissioned officer) in Hodson's Horse, a cavalry regiment of the pre-independence Indian Army.
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General Muhammad Musa
October 27, 1958 – June 17, 1966
6/13 Frontier Force Rifles
HPk, HJ, HQA, MBE
He was the eldest son of Sardar Yazdan Khan, born in a Shia Muslim, Hazara family hailing from Quetta, Pakistan. Khan was from the Sardar family of the Hazara tribe; a tribe native to Balochistan, Pakistan. He was a "Naek" (Junior Non-Commissioned Officer) in the "106th Hazara Pioneers" who went to train at the Military Academy in Dehra Dun as a cadet and graduated with the first batch of the British King's Commissioned Officer on 1 February 1935. He was posted to the 6th Royal Battalion, the 13th Frontier Force Rifles as a "Platoon Commander" in 1936. He took part in the Waziristan Operations in 1936-1938 and in World War II, where he served in North Africa.
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General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan
June 18, 1966 – December 20, 1971
4/10 Baluch Regiment
Yahya Khan was born on 4 February 1917 near Peshawar, in what is now Pakistan. His family descended from the elite soldier class of Nader Shah of Khorasan.[1] Khan is described as an ethnic Pashtun.[9][10] Few Pakistanis knew anything about Yahya Khan when he was vaulted into the presidency two years ago. The stocky, bushy-browed Pathan had been army chief of staff since 1966.[11]It is unknown if his family was Persian and became Pashtunized or if they belonged to the Abdali Pashtun tribe, who were led by Ahmad Shah Durrani during their 1738 occupation of Peshawar
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Lieutenant General Gul Hassan Khan
December 20, 1971 – March 3, 1972
Armoured Corps
Khan was born in Quetta, British Balochistan of the British Indian Empire. In 1929, Khan joined the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun, and graduated from there in 1942. He obtained commission in the British Indian Army, and landed a staff job in the Army.
General Tikka Khan
March 3, 1972 – March 1, 1976
Artillery
General Tikka Khan was born in a Narma Rajput family in the village of Jochha Mamdot in Kahuta Tehsil near Rawalpindi, in 1915 (in what was then British India). He was a graduate of the Indian Military Academy at Dehradun, and was commissioned on 22 December 1940.
General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
March 1, 1976 – August 17, 1988
Armoured Corps
Zia was born in Jalandhar, Punjab state of the British India,[9] on 12 August 1924 to a middle-class family, as the second child of Muhammad Akbar, who worked as a staff clerk in the Army GHQ of India Command of British Armed Forces in Delhi and Simla, prior to the partition of Pakistan from British colonial rule in 1947.
He completed his initial education in Simla and then attended St. Stephen's College in Delhi for his graduate degree. Prior to his graduation, Zia joined the British Indian Army in 1943
General Mirza Aslam Beg
August 17, 1988 – August 16, 1991
Baloch Regiment
Mirza Aslam Beg was born in the small village, Muslimpatti,[9] in Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh of British Indian Empire, to the Urdu-speaking Indian Muslim family on 2 August 1931.[10][11] His father, Mirza Murtaza Beg, was an advocate and practicing lawyer who had hold a well known prestige and respected name in the law circles of the Allahabad High Court.[12] The Beg family had traced a long ancestral roots of the Mughal Royal family who once emperors of India from early 15th century to the early 18th century
General Asif Nawaz
August 16, 1991 – January 8, 1993
Punjab Regiment
Asif Nawaz was born in the village of Chakri of Jhelum District into Janjua family. He was educated at St Mary's, a mission school in Rawalpindi, about which he later said that two Irish teachers, Fr Burns and Miss May Flanagan, had most influence in teaching him the values for his future career. He was the third generation of his family to join the Punjab Regiment (5th Battalion, also known as Sherdils) and as an outstanding cadet went on a scholarship to [Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
General Abdul Waheed
January 11, 1993 – January 12, 1996
Frontier Force Regiment
General Abdul Waheed Kakar was born on 20 March 1937 at Peshawar, British India (now Pakistan). A nephew of Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, he received his education at the Edwardes College, Peshawar. His ancestors belonged to the Kakar Pashtun tribe[3] from what is now Balochistan. His great grandfather migrated north and settled in Peshawar
General Jehangir Karamat
January 12, 1996 – October 6, 1998
Armoured Corps
Jehangir Karamat was born 20 February 1941 in Karachi, British Sindh, British Indian Empire to an Urdu-speaking class. His father was a government servant. After attending a private Christian-operated Saint Patrick's High School and received his high-school diploma, with emphasis on science courses. In 1957, Karamat passed the university entrance exam, and entered Kakul in the same year, and his mother also moved with him in Kakul to overlook his education.
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General Pervez Musharraf
October 6, 1998 – November 28, 2007
Artillery
Pervez Musharraf was born on 11 August 1943 to an Urdu-speaking family in Delhi, India, four years before the partition of India.[2][3][4] He is the son of Syed and Zarin Musharraf.[5][6] Syed graduated from Aligarh Muslim University and was a civil servant for the British Government.[7] Zarin was born in the early 1920s, who was also an academic educated and graduated from Aligarh Muslim University.[3]
Musharraf's first childhood home was called neharwali haveli, literally "mansion by the canal".[8] The house, located at the epicenter of India's ruling Mughal elite, is so large that in 2001 it housed eight different families.[8] Syed Ahmed Khan's family lived adjacent to the home.[8] The home's title deeds were written entirely in Urdu except for his father's English signature
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
November 29, 2007 – Present
Baloch Regiment
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was born in village Manghot located in Gujar Khan District Punjab Province, on 20 April 1952. The town of Manghot is situated on the Pothohar Plateau bounded on the east by the Jhelum River, on the west by the Indus River. Ashfaq's father was a Non-commissioned officer (NCO) in the Pakistan Army.
His humble background as the son of an NCO has endeared him to the junior ranks of the army. After attending a local high school, Ashfaq successfully enrolled in the Military College Jhelum, Sarai Alamgir and made a transfer to Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1971 in his class of 45th PMA Long Course
Why not that zia Hul Haq.... the product of Saint Stephans Delhi ??Only Gen Aslam Beg is a fellow Mohajir.
No because he was jalaandhariWhy not that zia Hul Haq.... the product of Saint Stephans Delhi ??
That is why he was the most deadliest snake ....
He was a Punjabi.Why not that zia Hul Haq.... the product of Saint Stephans Delhi ??
That is why he was the most deadliest snake ....
The Boston Marathon bombing rudely pushed to the sidelines everything else in the world media attention. However, in the long term, the fate that awaits Pakistan's military dictator and former president Pervez Musharraf will have far greater impact on regional security in South Asia than anything that happened in a very long while.
The common perception in India is that Musharraf's fate is "sealed" and that for once his chutzpah failed to work. The Indian commentators are revelling at the dictator's discomfiture and are narrowly focused on it. The Indians somehow got an entrenched opinion of Musharraf's personality as a curious "mix of bluff, bluster, swagger, insouciance, candour and above all, duplicity," as a leading commentator wrote in a Delhi newspaper this week.
There is perhaps an element of truth in this perception, because Musharraf's political personality had an erratic streak in it at times. But it is equally possible to say that there was always the tantalising scope to discern that there could be some method in his madness, too. We may never know. At the end of the day, the Indians didn't really try him out on his out-of-the-box formula for a Kashmir settlement.
The sight of the famous commando panicking and fleeing the Islamabad High Court premises when the order to arrest him was issued somehow will remain etched in memory as the final account of Musharraf. The court of course intended to humiliate him in public and to most onlookers, including the Xinhua news agency reporter, it appeared to be "poetic justice" that a dictator's nose was being rubbed in the dust.
However, on closer examination, which is always advisable when it comes to the under-currents in Pakistani politics, doubts arise about what is really happening, and the events begin to acquire a surreal look. In Pakistan, once an army general, you are always a general. They belong to a brotherhood. They circle the wagons at the slightest inkling of a challenge to their corporate interests.
Suffice to say, considering that all this is so very obviously a high-stakes political game, it is impossible that Musharraf didn't sound out the army leadership in Rawalpindi about his intention to return to Pakistan. Equally, it is inconceivable that he defied the advice that was forthcoming from Rawalpindi and chose to return nonetheless come what may. That is, assuming that he never bothered to consult the authorities of the country of his exile, Britain, or the Saudis and the Americans who were his mentors and well-wishers through thick and thin for a decade.
Clearly, Musharraf factored in the 'x-y-z' possibilities that awaited him in Pakistan, including, most important, the wrath of an unforgiving judiciary, which he treated disdainfully. And yet, if his fate – political and physical – was in mortal danger, he nonetheless estimated he could be certain that the present army leadership wouldn't let him be flushed down the toilet just like that. The events, which are still unfolding, suggest that he wasn't really far off the mark here. What gave him this confidence?
Thus, the question that begs an answer is what is the game plan of the Pakistani army. No one from the army has spoken. But enough indications are available even from a close reading of the Pakistani media that the army leadership in Rawalpindi will find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to countenance a situation where a 5-star general is treated like dirt. Indeed, truth and reconciliation are difficult to reach in Pakistan when that country's history is as tumultuous as it is, and the entire political class (and the judiciary and the executive as a whole) has been compromised at one point or the other.
Thus, as a perceptive Pakistani journalist of the Dawn newspaper Anwar Iqbal wrote in the weekend, while there is great temptation to lock up Musharraf in the same cell where Nawaz Sharif was kept (whom he overthrew to usurp political power in 1999) in Pakistan's notorious Attock Fort and let snakes and scorpions into his room so that he too cries out in pain, or handcuff and shackle him and parade him through the streets of Karachi and Quetta, or do unto him "what they did to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir and Nawaz Sharif", there is also at the same time a growing body of opinion slowly gaining dominance through the cacophony of revenge calls, which cautions that "ground realities must not be ignored, after all, he is a former army chief and the military obviously will not like this humiliation."
A dress rehearsal
However, it is not a mere question of the military's perceived "humiliation" that is at stake here. Interestingly, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the well known aristocrat-cum-politician from the heartland Punjab province with a consistent history of soldiering tirelessly for the military's interests has already raised his voice that the trial of Musharraf should not target any specific institution of the state. Of course, he meant the Pakistani military and it is doubtful if the feudal lord could have spoken without prompting.
In sum, Musharraf's fate will have a huge bearing on Pakistan's political economy. In a way, it is a dress rehearsal of an impending struggle for civilian supremacy in Pakistan that the new elected government, which by all accounts will be headed by Nawaz Sharif, can be expected to spearhead.
Put differently, the profound significance of the events of the past week lies in that the struggle for civilian supremacy has truly begun in Pakistan and its consequences are going to be far-reaching for India-Pakistan relations, for Afghanistan and for regional security in general.
To be sure, there will be hiccups on the way, as the Turkish experience also shows, but the democratisation process is bound to gain strength incrementally in Pakistan even if the current round may seem an uneasy deuce. In Turkey, over 300 Pashas are currently sitting in jails and yet life moves on, although hardly three years ago, this would have seemed a preposterous thing to happen.
While the writer is right about the army's dilemma, he/she also underestimates the Army's stake in the unfolding drama. It is a surprise that the army allowed this much humiliation of one of their own. But that is the concession that they were expected to make considering the uproar against the army's role in the continuing drone strikes.
A staunch supporter and fan of former president Pervez Musharraf suffered a heart attack and died after hearing the news of the ex-army chief's arrest orders.
It seems like US is bend on installing a democracy in Pak. Reading various reports, it seems like Court in Pak is quiet powerful. Thats where they are trying to begin a reset.it is very srrange that judges are openly acting against ex general musharraf. is it possible they are backed by americans to ensure that musharraf pays for sheltering osama?
musshy is Indian as he was born in India. (by logic given by you).He's no less than a shaheed.dying because of a arrest of a natural leader like musharaf..does make one death equal to shahadat
Musharraf's supporter suffers heart attack out of grief – The Express Tribune
exception does exist..i never meant that all indians are baniyasmusshy is Indian as he was born in India. (by logic given by you).
you are really an exceptionsexception does exist..i never meant that all indians are baniyas
Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned that the Taliban have made plans to kidnap former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is currently being held at his private residence on the outskirts of Islamabad.
The intelligence agencies have issued an advisory that the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan might attempt to abduct Musharraf while he is being taken from his farmhouse to court, Geo News channel reported on Friday.
The channel quoted its sources as saying that the Taliban was working with other jihadi groups to kidnap Musharraf .
The intelligence agencies directed security agencies to ensure strict surveillance and tight security to foil the plans of the militants, the report said.
Shortly after Musharraf returned to Pakistan from self-exile last month, the Taliban announced that they had formed a special squad of suicide bombers and snipers to target him.
A car rigged with a huge amount of explosives was recently found near Musharraf’s farmhouse on the outskirts of Islamabad, which was declared a sub-jail after he was arrested last week when a court revoked his bail in a case over the detention of dozens of judges during the 2007 emergency.
Musharraf has been accused of failing to provide adequate security to Bhutto, who was killed by a suicide bomber after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi. He returned to Pakistan last month and he was barred from running in the May 11 general election.
Pervez in FIA custody
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Friday remanded Pervez Musharraf to the physical custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) till April 30 in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.
The judge directed the FIA to produce Musharraf in court again on April 30. Official sources said Musharraf would continue to be held at his farmhouse, declared a sub-jail by authorities.
US rider on Pak aid
US Lawmaker Dana Rohrabacher has said he will continue to bring Congressional amendments against any US aid to Pakistan unless Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden, is released from jail. "The American people need to be outraged that Pakistan is holding Afridi. But for us then to give them aid on top of that is absolutely unconscionable," he said.