Inside Pakistan

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Inside Pakistan

Author: Sanjay Dutt
Order No. 51029
ISBN: 8176481572
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 535
Language: English

In a day of dramatic events, prime minister Nawaz Sharif was deposed in a military coup after he sacked army Chief General Pervez Musharraf, Troops held Mr. Sharif under house arrest and took control of key installations and airports following the dismissal. The president, whom Gen. Musharraf again, said to favor the installation of a civilian administration as soon as possible. The army is considering a national all-party government. The army authorities are in touch with former law minister Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada as well as former Supreme Court chief justice Sajjad Ali Shah. At the same time the army has sealed off Pakistan’s Parliament in an apparent move to stop the two Houses from meeting.