1999 Pakistani coup d'etat

1999 Military Coup d'état
United Nations's geophysical map of Pakistan
Date 12 October 1999 Location Pakistan Result Military takeover of the civilian government of Nawaz Sharif in a bloodless coup. Mass and nationwide arrest of PML(N) workers and detainment of PML(N)'s leadership due to the corruption and bad governance of PML (N) . Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif arrested and later exiled, as a result of an agreement, on 10/11 December 2000. General Musharraf became Chief Executive and reformed National Security Council to run the state affairs of the country. The writ of Constitution provisionally suspended. Suspension of Pakistan from the Commonwealth Nations. Chief Justice of Pakistan, including nine Senior justices refused to take an oath and resigned. Media blackout of Sharif-aligned conservative mass media. No censorship imposed on liberal/libertarian mass media. President Rafiq Tarar forced to resign from office. Beginning of Pervez Musharraf's rule as President. Revival of the writ of Constitution of Pakistan in 2001. In 2002, the general elections outcomes witnessed the rise of the Libertarian regime with Z.K. Jamali as Prime Minister. In 2004, Shaukat Aziz took over the premiership and the control of the government with Musharraf. In 2007, Musharraf declared martial law and virtually suspended the writ of constitution. A populist impeachment movement eventually led Musharraf to resign and exile to United Kingdom in 2008– thus ending of Musharraf's rule.
Belligerents
Pakistan Armed Forces FIA	Government of Pakistan Punjab Police Sindh Police
Commanders and leaders
Pervez Musharraf Gang of Four	Nawaz Sharif Shahbaz Sharif Ziauddin Butt Javed Hashmi Mamnoon Hussain
Strength
617,000	170,000

Pakistan Armed Forces

Government of Pakistan

Pervez Musharraf

The 1999 Pakistani coup d'état was a bloodless coup d'état in which the Pakistan Army and then-Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Pervez Musharraf, seized the control of the civilian government of publicly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 October 1999. Two days into seizing the government, on 14 October 1999, General Musharraf, who then-acted as the country's Chief Executive, declared a state of emergency by issuing a Provisional Constitutional Order that suspended the writ of the Constitution of Pakistan.

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