Musharraf biography

President of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008

"Musharraf" redirects here. For the given name, see Musharraf (name).

Pervez Musharraf^[a] (11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.

Prior to his career in politics, he was a four-star general and appointed as the chief of Army Staff and, later, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by prime ministerNawaz Sharif in 1998. He was the leading war strategist in the Kargil infiltration that brought India and Pakistan to a brink of war in 1999. When prime minister Sharif unsuccessfully attempted to dismiss general Musharraf from his command assignments, the Army GHQtook over the control of the civilian government, which allowed him to control the military and the civilian government.

In 2001, Musharaff seized the presidency through a legality and a referendum but was constitutionally confirmed in this cap