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 I would end my observations with the following excerpts from an address to the nation delivered by General Musharraf on March 5, 2002: “….I come to education…you know human resource development is one of our top priorities. We cannot progress unless we improve the quality of education….We want to improve our literacy level. We want to bring about a qualitative improvement in our education…..”
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 I would end my observations with the following excerpts from an address to the nation delivered by General Musharraf on March 5, 2002: “….I come to education…you know human resource development is one of our top priorities. We cannot progress unless we improve the quality of education….We want to improve our literacy level. We want to bring about a qualitative improvement in our education…..”
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  Continuing to face pressure for holding the dual roles of army chief and president, Musharraf resigned from the former role. In 2008, he relinquished his post of civilian president to avoid impeachment and left the country. In 2013, he returned to Pakistan to contest the general election but was barred by the courts. He moved to Dubai for treatment in 2016.
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	Protests against his rule started in March 2007 after he attempted to remove the then SC Chief Justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Continuing to face pressure for holding the dual roles of army chief and president, Musharraf resigned from the former role. In 2008, he relinquished his post of a civilian president to avoid impeachment and left the country. In 2013, he returned to Pakistan to contest general elections but was barred by the courts. He moved to Dubai for treatment in 2016.		Protests against his rule started in March 2007 after he attempted to remove the then SC Chief Justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Continuing to face pressure for holding the dual roles of army chief and president, Musharraf resigned from the former role. In 2008, he relinquished his post of a civilian president to avoid impeachment and left the country. In 2013, he returned to Pakistan to contest general elections but was barred by the courts. He moved to Dubai for treatment in 2016.
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		+	==Further details==
		+	[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/musharraf-india-born-dictator-wanted-peace-or-war/articleshow/97620846.cms?pcode=462 February 5, 2023: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, convicted and sentenced to death by a special court in a high treason case on July 31, 2009, had ruled Pakistan for nine years after removing the elected government of then prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a military coup in 1999. Musharraf, 76, was born in Neharwali Haveli in Old Delhi in 1943. After Partition, his parents moved to Karachi where millions of refugees migrating from India had settled.
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		+	Musharraf was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in 1964 and saw action in the country’s 1965 and 1971 wars against India.
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		+	Despite being third in seniority, he was appointed to lead the army by Sharif on October 7, 1998. Both Musharraf and Sharif had presided over Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May 1998, conducted in response to similar tests by India days earlier.
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		+	Musharraf, the longest serving army chief in the country after General Zia-ul-Haq, would never have reached the post but for Sharif, who superseded him over several other officers.
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		+	''' Kargil war '''
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		+	Things, however, went wrong between Sharif and Musharraf after the 1999 Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan, as both of them engaged in a blame game over the military misadventure. While Sharif claimed that Musharraf was solely responsible for the Kargil attack, the army chief alleged that the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) or PML(N) leader had succumbed to US pressure.
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		+	After months of contentious relations, Sharif had unsuccessfully attempted to remove Musharraf as the army chief while he was on a flight back from an official visit to Sri Lanka. In retaliation, Musharraf ordered the military to take control of state institutions and announced a state of emergency. He declared himself ‘chief executive’ of the country as he landed in Pakistan.
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		+	''' 1999 coup '''
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		+	Musharraf overthrew Sharif after the PML(N) leader sacked him as the army chief. His first action after the Supreme Court validated his bloodless coup was to exile Sharif from Pakistan, banning him from returning to the country for 10 years.
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		+	With Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Benazir Bhutto — the other leading political player in Pakistan — already in exile, Musharraf declared himself the country’s ‘chief executive’ and formally appointed himself president on June 20, 2001, days before travelling to Agra for the much-hyped summit with then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which failed to yield any breakthrough.
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		+	Vajpayee and Musharraf met in Agra in July 2001. The Agra summit remains till date the most ambitious attempt at peace between the two countries. The two leaders, however, could not reach an agreement.
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		+	In all its history, the Pakistan Army has produced only one such maverick, Musharraf, who after becoming the country’s president through a coup actually spearheaded what remains to date the most serious — and creative — solution to resolving the vexing dispute with India over Jammu and Kashmir. Interestingly, Musharraf did not initially meet all the criteria of an idiosyncratic military leader who could make peace with India.
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		+	He remained the ‘chief executive’ until April 30, 2002 when he organised a controversial general election and brought a party of his own loyalists, Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid e Azam), to power.
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		+	On January 1, 2004, Musharraf won a confidence vote from the electoral college comprising the five legislatures. This body then re-elected him in uniform on October 6, 2007 for a second term as president, a post that he continued to hold until he was removed in 2008.
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		+	He is known for his role in the US ‘war on terror’, which he supported after 9/11 despite domestic opposition.
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		+	The dismissal of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on March 9, 2007 on charges of abuse of office sparked nationwide protests by lawyers and Opposition parties, marking the beginning of decline of Musharraf’s regime.
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		+	His decision to send troops to storm the radical Lal Masjid in Islamabad on July 10, 2007 — an operation that killed more than 100 people — further intensified terror strikes, including suicide bombings in the country.
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		+	However, his move to impose an emergency on November 3, 2007 suspending the constitution, detaining hundreds of political opponents and sacking the Supreme Court judges who were to decide whether he was eligible to stand for presidential election in uniform, hastened his downfall.
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		+	Continuing to face pressure for holding the dual roles of army chief and president, Musharraf resigned from the former role. In 2008, he relinquished his post of civilian president to avoid impeachment and left the country. In 2013, he returned to Pakistan to contest the general election but was barred by the courts. He moved to Dubai for treatment in 2016.

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 I would end my observations with the following excerpts from an address to the nation delivered by General Musharraf on March 5, 2002: “….I come to education…you know human resource development is one of our top priorities. We cannot progress unless we improve the quality of education….We want to improve our literacy level. We want to bring about a qualitative improvement in our education…..”
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	ABC News reported that Siddiqui had been carrying maps of New York and a list of potential terrorism targets, including the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and the subway system, when she was taken into custody. AP		ABC News reported that Siddiqui had been carrying maps of New York and a list of potential terrorism targets, including the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and the subway system, when she was taken into custody. AP
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		+	=2016: Gen Raheel helps him leave Pakistan=
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Gen-Raheel-helped-me-leave-Pak-Mush-21122016028045 Omer Farooq Khan, Dec 21 2016: The Times of India]
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		+	Pakistan's former president General Pervez Musharraf has said that ex-Army chief General Raheel Sharif had exercised his “influence“ to help him leave the country in March.
		+	“I was General Raheel's boss and also the army chief before him. He helped me out because all the cases against me were politicised,“ Mus harraf said on Monday .
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		+	Musharraf, 71, who is facing treason charges in Pakistan for imposing Emergency in November 2007, was not allowed to travel abroad after being put on the exit control list (ECL) by the Supreme Court. “Behind the scenes, our courts work under pressure. Raheel played a role in releasing the pressure exerted on courts,“ Musharraf said, adding that he managed to travel to Dubai after the SC lifted the travel ban on medical grounds. The SC's decision to let him travel abroad was criticised by political parties, who questioned the government's willingness in pursuing the treason case. Experts said that the go vernment was under pressure from the country's powerful military , which did not want its former chief to be tried and humiliated by the civilian government in civilian courts. Musharraf is being tried in murder cases of former PM Benazir Bhutto and other politicians.

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	Musharraf derived his backing from Washington mainly on account of the Pentagon’s and CIA’s long institutional relationship with their counterparts in Pakistan and political support from the vicepresident Dick Cheney’s office. But increasingly, both the US military and intelligence began to provide evidence of Pakistani malfeasance in the war on terror, including Islamabad’s covert support for Taliban, forcing the political players in Washington to fall in line.		Musharraf derived his backing from Washington mainly on account of the Pentagon’s and CIA’s long institutional relationship with their counterparts in Pakistan and political support from the vicepresident Dick Cheney’s office. But increasingly, both the US military and intelligence began to provide evidence of Pakistani malfeasance in the war on terror, including Islamabad’s covert support for Taliban, forcing the political players in Washington to fall in line.
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		+	==Bush administration==
		+	'' From the archives of "The Times of India" ''
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		+	''' ‘Bush admin has asked Pervez to step down’ '''
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		+	Washington: Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has reportedly been told by the Bush administration to step down voluntarily rather than prolong an ongoing political crisis and face impeachment.
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		+	CBS News quoted highranking Pakistani government officials and western diplomats as saying that American officials have told Musharraf that it is in the best interests of Pakistan to step down from office.
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		+	Speaking to CBS News on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information, the Pakistani official said the US was keen to see an orderly transition of power, presenting Washington with the opportunity to build close ties with Musharraf'’s successor.
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		+	The Bush administration’s interest in maintaining close relations with Pakistan is built around the desire to carry forward cooperation in the war against Islamic extremism. Pakistan, under Musharraf ’s leadership, has deployed as many as 150,000 military and paramilitary soldiers along its border with Afghanistan in support of the US and Nato led military operations in that country.
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		+	Washington is also fighting to secure “safe passage” for the embattled president. Musharraf is learnt to have refused to take the “safe passage” to mean an immediate exile out of the country following his resignation.
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		+	He is said to be insisting on guarantees from the federal government that he be allowed to stay in his newly-built house on the outerskirts of Islamabad and given foolproof security.
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		+	According to the Daily Times, Musharraf’s two conditions are: First, that he will be entitled to stay in his house in Chak Shahzad on the outskirts of Islamabad and be provided full security and privileges as allowed under law to all presidents; and, Second, that cast-iron guarantees of indemnity from any action against him following his resignation will be provided, preferably through an act of parliament.
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		+	It is also learnt that the army high command is standing by him in these two demands, added the paper. The last thing the Pakistan army wants is to see either the impeachment of a former army chief or action against him by the civilians on any count. ANI
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		+	''' Aafia was set up by US military '''
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		+	New York: A lawyer for a Pakistani woman charged with trying to kill US military officers in a gunfight in Afghanistan accused the government on Wednesday of setting up her client by planting evidence on her.
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		+	The lawyer, Elizabeth Fink, also accused the government of trying to poison the court process by leaking information about her client, Aafia Siddiqui, who was brought to the United States a week ago to face federal charges.
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		+	Siddiqui was arrested on July 17 after she was found outside a governor’s compound in central Afghanistan’s Ghazni province carrying documents describing US landmarks and containing recipes for chemical weapons, along with bottles and jars of chemicals, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in New York.
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		+	Siddiqui was shot on July 18 after she snatched a soldier’s rifle, pointed it at an army captain and fired two shots, which missed, the affidavit said. Her family has denied the accusations.
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		+	ABC News reported that Siddiqui had been carrying maps of New York and a list of potential terrorism targets, including the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and the subway system, when she was taken into custody. AP

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	Disappointed by his American friends, President Pervez Musharraf, who faces impeachment by the ruling coalition, has sent an “SOS message” to the Saudi authorities, a source said on Monday. “The message was sent through a senior Saudi diplomat based in Islamabad,” the source said, adding the president has received a response that is “not very positive”. The source said the Saudi authorities, however, are sending a senior government official to gain a first hand view of the situation arising out of the impeachment move. The source said that Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Ali Awadh Asseri would also be soon returning home after cutting short his private visit to his homeland. Musharraf, when he seized power in October 1999 after overthrowing prime minister Nawaz Sharif, had sent him into exile in Saudi Arabia.		Disappointed by his American friends, President Pervez Musharraf, who faces impeachment by the ruling coalition, has sent an “SOS message” to the Saudi authorities, a source said on Monday. “The message was sent through a senior Saudi diplomat based in Islamabad,” the source said, adding the president has received a response that is “not very positive”. The source said the Saudi authorities, however, are sending a senior government official to gain a first hand view of the situation arising out of the impeachment move. The source said that Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Ali Awadh Asseri would also be soon returning home after cutting short his private visit to his homeland. Musharraf, when he seized power in October 1999 after overthrowing prime minister Nawaz Sharif, had sent him into exile in Saudi Arabia.
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		+	=US position=
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		+	''' US fights for giving Mush safe passage '''
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		+	Chidanand Rajghatta \| TNN
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		+	'' FROM THE ARCHIVES OF ‘‘THE TIMES OF INDIA’’: 2008 ''
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		+	Washington: The Bush administration, for long a patron of Pakistan’s military strongman Pervez Musharraf, has decided to let go of its ward amid growing momentum for the civilian democratic government’s move to impeach the fading “president” who derived much of his strength from the army and Washington.
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		+	Washington has discreetly made it known, through key officials, that the impeachment proceedings are the “internal affairs” of Pakistan and the US will respect due process, but has also conveyed that Musharraf should be given immunity and/or safe exit from the political lynch mob should he decide to step down before lawmakers formally move against him.
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		+	There is growing expectation that Musharraf will step down after a farewell address to nation on August 14, Pakistan’s independence day, although his aides are contesting reports to that effect. But Washington has already signalled a hands-off approach.
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		+	“Our expectation is that any action will be consistent with the rule of law and the Pakistani constitution,” was all a state department official would say last week after the White House decided not to back Musharraf in his scrap with the new civilian rulers, having ascertained that the Pakistani army is also not willing to interfere in the process.
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		+	However, both players —America and army — have conveyed that they would like the civilian dispensation to abjure the politics of vendetta and allow the retired general to defend himself. US interlocutors, including Washington’s envoy to Islamabad, Anne Patterson, are said to be in consultations with Musharraf, his successor army chief, Gen Ashfaq Kayani, and the new civilian leadership, to arrange for a climb down and a possible safe passage for Musharraf should he decide not to go down the path of confrontation.
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		+	With more and more Pakistani lawmakers, including prominent politicians who thrived under his dispensation, ditching Musharraf in the last few days, his days seem numbered. Some of the political players, including Musharraf’s current nemesis Nawaz Sharif and the scions of the Bugti clan, whose paterfamilias Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was killed on Musharraf’s orders, are playing hardball and insisting that Musharraf will be tried. There are fears that such sentiments might generate a lynch mob.
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		+	While the US is ready to sideline Musharraf, it does not want humiliation for the man who served its cause initially and earned warm praise from its president before he fell foul of the White House. Speculation is rife in Pakistan about how Bush has avoided phone calls from Musharraf even as Washington is busy arranging exile for the fallen military ruler.
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		+	The US position on Musharraf changed followed a growing body of evidence that he may have played a double game in not only the war on terror, but also in the carefully crafted US plans to bring about a rapproachment between him and Benazir Bhutto and push Pakistan towards a quasi-civilian form of government with a strong military influence. A stunning disclosure based on communication intercepts by US intelligence in American journalist Ron Suskind’s new book ‘The Way of the World’ shows Musharraf literally toyed with Benazir Bhutto’s life before she was snuffed out by an assassin.
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		+	“You should understand something,” Musharraf tells Bhutto in one conversation. “Your security is based on the state of our relationship.” The conversation takes place during Bhutto’s meeting with US lawmakers at Capitol Hill, including John Kerry, and state department officials, Suskind says, at a time when she was insisting on the repeal of the provision prohibiting a third term for prime ministers.
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		+	Musharraf derived his backing from Washington mainly on account of the Pentagon’s and CIA’s long institutional relationship with their counterparts in Pakistan and political support from the vicepresident Dick Cheney’s office. But increasingly, both the US military and intelligence began to provide evidence of Pakistani malfeasance in the war on terror, including Islamabad’s covert support for Taliban, forcing the political players in Washington to fall in line.