national prominence after being appointed a four-star general in October 1998 by then-Prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Musharraf was the mastermind and strategic field commander behind the Kirgiz infiltration. Musharraf played a vital role in the Afghan civil war‚ both assisting the peace negotiations and attempting to end the bloodshed in the country. After months of contentious relations with Prime Minister Sharif‚ Musharraf was brought to power through a military coup d’états in 1999‚ subsequently placing
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the last few months of Nawaz Sharif Government and the role played by General Musharraf are newsy and revealing. It claims Pervez Musharraf‚ in 1990 a bright and ambitious Pakistani Brigadier at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London‚ first linked the Indo-Pakistan conflict to the rivers of Jammu and Kashmir in a paper he wrote for his one year course. “The Brigadier was suggesting that the rivers hold the key to the future conflict.” The book discloses that Nawaz Sharif sent a
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and India took up arms once again in what became known as the Kargil Conflict in the Kashmir area along the northern borders of India and Pakistan. The operation was planned and executed while Musharraf was Army chief of staff under Prime Minister Sharif. Kashmir militants with assistance from Pakistani soldiers took positions in Indian territory. They were soon discovered by the Indian army. Some reports indicate the Indian intelligence knew of their intentions weeks before the conflict. With the
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but despair for decades – that same dark despair which Pakistanis have experienced at least since the overthrow of Nawaz Sharif’s government by a man whose name will always be linked to the darkest chapter in Pakistan’s history because he not only destroyed institutions‚ he brought to Pakistan unprecedented violence and despair. Since that dark day of October 12‚ 1999‚ when Nawaz Sharif committed the greatest blunder of his life through his ill-planned and poorly executed order to replace General Musharraf
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Overview of Pakistan’s Economy Pakistan was a very poor and predominantly agricultural country when it gained independence in 1947. Pakistan’s average economic growth rate since independence has been higher than the average growth rate of the world economy during the period. Average annual real GDP growth rates were 6.8% in the 1960s‚ 4.8% in the 1970s‚ and 6.5% in the 1980s. Average annual growth fell to 4.6% in the 1990s with significantly lower growth in the second half of that decade. Farming
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1999 under Article 5(1)(2) of (PCO) Provisional Constitutional Order. One of the most consolidate reason behind NRO was to give an immediate relief to late PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto by giving protection in all cases registered against her by Nawaz government . The NRO also protected our current President Mr. Asif Ali Zardari and Ms Bhutto against $60 million Swiss bribe and Geneva simple money laundering cases. The case was pending in the Swiss court when General Musharaf promulgated the
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After a decade of Global War On Terror --- Economic‚ social‚ political impact on Pakistan Majyd Aziz The exodus of Russians from Afghanistan‚ the megalomania of Iraq’s Saddam‚ the spread of Islam in the West‚ the domestic and external pressure on the American economy‚ the 9/11 historical event‚ and the voluminous studies of latter-day Dr Strangelove’s clones nurtured and financed by massively-funded American think tanks were all contributing factors in a series of initiatives undertaken by
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and any links that are not relevant to the context. (March 2013) Pakistani general election‚ 2013 2008 ← on 11 May 2013 [1] → 2018 All 342 seats to the National Assembly 172 seats needed for a majority Leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Nawaz Sharif Imran Khan Party PPP PML (N) PTI Leader since 30 December 2007 16 November 1988 25 April 1996 Leader ’s seat Larkana Lahore Mianwali Last election 121 seats‚ 35.3% 91 seats‚ 26.6% Did not participate Incumbent Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan
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Bonds of history‚ culture and faithfulness associate Pakistan and Bangladesh to each other. The people of the two countries shared a ‘common nationhood’ for almost twenty-five years and even after separation it has not been easy to sever the links rooted deep in their history. However‚ Pakistan-Bangladesh relations had a bad start primarily because of two reasons. First‚ Bangladesh was born out of a bloody conflict with a military regime ruling the country from Islamabad. Secondly‚ Bangladesh gained
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the military dictatorship coupled with an unstable relationship with our neighboring countries which has already deprived us of our one half in 1971. From the year 1988- 1999‚ there was a power alternation in the governments of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif and neither of them could complete their full term as the Prime Minister although these governments were the symbol of people’s government through their choice and finally in 1999‚ we witnessed another military coup that has completed it’s two
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