Reply #9: Musharraf didn't push out Benazir Bhutto

[...of J.Temperance]

He had the coup and pushed out the elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the coup was in 1999.

Bhutto hasn't been in Pakistan since 1998, she fled Pakistan in 1998, she returned recently, she was removed from office in 1996 by Pakistani President Leghari because of corruption charges....the equally corrupt Sharif replaced her, then Musharraf overthrew the Sharif government.


1999 Pakistani Coup d'etat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Pakistani_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif#Military_Coup


"With the public and press openly speculating about the possibility of a military takeover, Nawaz became increasingly insecure. On October 12, 1999, he removed Musharraf as army chief. Musharraf, who was out of the country, boarded a commercial airliner to return to Pakistan. Sharif ordered the Karachi airport to prevent the landing of the airliner, which then circled the skies over Karachi. The army ousted Sharif's administration and took over the airport. The plane landed with only a few minutes of fuel to spare, and Musharraf assumed control of the government. The Supreme Court validated the coup on the grounds that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments destroyed all constitutional remedies for removing Nawaz Sharif from office.

Nawaz was thrown in prison and tried by Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Courts, which sentenced him to several life sentences for corruption, hijacking, tax evasion, embezzlement, and terrorism in 2000. The military government agreed to commute his sentence from life in prison to exile in Saudi Arabia. His family moved with him. His wife and senior members of his party formed an anti-military coalition along with the Pakistan People's Party, previously the major opposition to Sharif's Muslim League. Nawaz and the PPP have only offered token resistance to President Musharraf's government. Efforts are mainly restricted to criticism through the media and trying to disrupt Parliament."


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