The 1999 military takeover in Pakistan was a bloodless coup d'état initiated by the military staff at the Joint Staff HQ working under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of
Jinnah International Airport, where Chairman Joint Chiefs Gen. Musharraf landed in Karachi, c.] 2006.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan in c. 2004.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani politician and military officer who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He overthrew Nawaz Sharif's government in the 1999 coup d'état and pro
Musharraf in 2004
Musharraf with U.S. President George W. Bush in Islamabad, March 2006. Musharraf was an ardent support of Bush's war on terror following the September 11 attacks, abandoning his support for the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Musharraf meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, April 2005.
The exterior of Lal Masjid in 2017, a decade after the 2007 siege of the mosque.