Word: coups
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...Among those arrested were six ex-soldiers from the special-forces Counter Revolutionary Warfare unit, elements of which were linked to both the 2000 coup against then-P.M. Chaudhry and a subsequent mutiny in which Bainimarama narrowly escaped assassination. Also arrested was ex-intelligence chief Col. Metuisela Mua, who served a jail term for his part in the 2000 events...
...PLAYERS President Pervez Musharraf came to power in Pakistan in a bloodless 1999 coup promising to fix Pakistan's economy and clean it of corruption, which had grown under successive civilian leaders. General Musharraf is a former commando and fought in Pakistan's wars with its bigger South Asian neighbor - and constant rival - India in 1965 and 1971. He was Chief of Army Staff during a smaller conflict between the two countries in 1999, a bloody tussle that some feared might go nuclear as both India and Pakistan had just carried out nuclear tests and had - and continue to have...
American support for president Pervez Musharraf has always come with a cover story to gloss over the awkward fact that one of the U.S.'s most important allies happens to be a military dictator. General Musharraf may have seized power in a coup, say his defenders in Washington, but he's our sort of guy, the kind of man we need in the fight against terrorism--and, by the way, he has always said he will return his country to democracy. In other words, the Pakistani strongman is crucial to both of the U.S.'s key goals in the Muslim...
...military command. His regime is already promising that elections will go ahead in January, by which time a Musharraf-Bhutto alliance may be firmly in place. If Musharraf lasts that long, that is. Indeed, within days of the declaration of emergency, rumors began to spread of a coup backed by Pakistan's new vice chief of army staff, General Ashfaq Kyani, Musharraf's heir apparent. Rumors are commonplace in Pakistani politics, and Kyani is a loyalist. Still, for many Pakistanis--even those fed up with military dictators--the rumors brought a glimmer of hope. Abida Hussain, a former ambassador...
...past eight years Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, has run the country as both President and general. That straddling of both offices - which many say contravenes Pakistan's constitution - was challenged in October when Musharraf won a second term as President with 98% of the vote in an election that was boycotted by the opposition. Musharraf had promised that he would step down as general before he was sworn in as President. But a Supreme Court ruling on the legitimacy of that election was still pending, and the court ordered that Musharraf could not be declared...