Frontline Pakistan : The Struggle With Militant Islam - Arz-e-Pak

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Prologue
The detail was gathered through a series of interviews with close aides
of Musharraf and senior government officials. Part of the information was
taken from Musharraf’s interview with the BBC programme Frontline
Pakistan, broadcast in August 2005.
Musharraf interviewed on Pakistan Television, 25 December 2003.
Zaffar Abbas, ‘What happened?’ Herald magazine, June 2005.
Interview with General Musharraf, October 1999.
In Business Recorder, Karachi, 16 October 1999; see .
See .
Mangla is the headquarters of the Pakistani army’s main strike corps.
Interview with a retired senior army officer in 2004.
Ibid.
Interview with a former member of Nawaz Sharif’s government in 2002.
From the transcript of evidence presented in court during the trial of
Nawaz Sharif.
Zahid Hussain, ‘From prison to palace’, Newsline, January 2001.
Ibid.
Field Marshall Ayub Khan (1907–1974) was commissioned in the Royal
British Indian army in 1928. At the time of Independence, he was the
most senior Muslim officer in Pakistan’s army and became the first native
commander-in-chief in 1951. The army was directly involved in politics
for the first time when Ayub Khan, serving as army chief, was inducted
into the Cabinet as Defence Minister. He played a key role in Pakistan’s
entry into US-sponsored cold war military alliances, the Central Treaty
Organisation (CENTO) and the South East Asian Treaty Organisation
(CEATO). On 7 October 1958, Ayub Khan imposed martial law for the
first time in Pakistan. After nearly 11 years of rule, his generals forced him
to resign in 1969 in the wake of public protests.
Adnan Adil, ‘Murder in God’s name’, Newsline, June 2002.