Since 2004, an insurgency has been fought in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Jundallah, Lashkar-e-Islam, the Tehreek-e-N
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Pervez Musharraf
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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
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
…seeking refuge in the bordering Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Pakistan had already joined the US-led war on terror after the 9/11 attacks under Pervez Musharraf. However, after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters ventured across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to seek refuge…
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.