It is an indictment of Pervez Musharraf’s successors that his dictatorship is remembered fondly by many Pakistanis today. We look back on his life
was appointed army chief of Pakistan in 1998, he was considered a surprising choice. A hot-headed former artilleryman, with a reputation for bravery under Indian fire and occasional indiscipline, he was number three on a list of generals that Nawaz Sharif, then prime minister, had been given to pick from. He was also an outlier in a top brass dominated by ethnic Punjabis and Pushtuns.
America had given him little alternative: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,” Mr Bush had said. But Mr Musharraf’s turn against extremism was also a matter of personal conviction. Unlike the pious Zia, he was a whisky-drinking moderate with an eye for the ladies. Having spent much of his childhood in Turkey, where his father was stationed as a diplomat, Mr Musharraf was a lifelong fan of Kemal Ataturk, its great secular reformer.
The spurt of economic growth Mr Musharraf oversaw came at the cost of the democratic institutions he suborned, including the constitution and courts. His campaign against militancy was undercut by the very Islamist political parties that he championed to counter his mainstream democratic opponents. It was also undermined by the army.
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