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11 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read
A failed Islamist military coup in Pakistan -- Thread:

In 1992 Commander FCNA - Maj Gen Zaheer Abbasi undertook an unauthorized and costly foray into Indian-held territory in which Pak Army lost ~ 40 men including 11 officers (incl a Brigadier).
Gen Abbasi was removed from his command & given a non-operational desk role at GHQ. He'd ve been fired had it not been for the reported intervention of Gen Javed then DG-ISI (Gen Javed was appointed by NS on the recommendation of Brig (R) Imtiaz (involved in midnight Jackal)).
By 1995, Gen Zaheer along with Brigadier Mustansar Billa, Col Minhas and Harkatul Jihad-i-Islami (HuJI) commander Qari Saifullah planned to kill top Pak military leadership including then COAS Gen Kakar and civilian leadership PM Benazir Bhutto and President Leghari.
The plan named "Operation Khilafat" was to take over the reins of government and declare Pakistan a theocratic state and implement Shariah Law. But before 96 hours of the execution of the coup, Military Intelligence and ISI intervened and arrested ~ 40 army men and 20 civilians.
Gen Zaheer and co-conspirator had already written the "Address to the Nation" in which he appealed to all Muslims to unite under the "Islamic Revolution" that had taken place and would declare there would be no borders within the world of Islam..
..and that the borders btw Pak and Afghanistan would finish since we were one nation in Islam.

One of the planners of the coup Qari Saifullah became an approver, Gen Zaheer, Brigadier Mustansar Billa and others were court-martialed and sentenced to jail for 7, 14 and 2 years.
For Pakistan's first failed military coup by communists/far-left, check this thread.

References:
1) History of Pakistan Army Aviation
2) Pakistan's Drift into Extremism
3) Daughter of the East
4) Crossed Swords

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During BB's 2nd tenure, BB was invited to a war game at Joint Staff Headquarters. A Kargil-type of operation was war-gamed between two competing army commanders..
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I will start my thread with this quote:
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فرقہ واریت بڑھ سکتی تھی۔

ان کے سپوٹرز کے لیے عرض ہے کہ ہر چیز بلیک اینڈ وائٹ میں نہیں ہوتی۔ یہ ضروری نہیں..
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BJP membership form requires the taking of a pledge that contains the line: "I subscribe to the concept of secular state & nation not based on religion." Image
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اس بار بھی ریاست ان کے خلاف ایکشن لیتی تو بہت خون بہنا تھا۔
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After the Jalalabad incident, BB in her 1st tenure replaced Gen Hamid Gul - thn DG-ISI. She went on to appoint a retired Gen as DG-ISI even though Gen Beg advised against such appointment & forwarded a list of three serving Generals for DG-ISI appointment, BB sent her regrets.
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The appointment of Gen Javed Nasir has more to do with Brigadier Imtiaz as Gen Javed was related to Brig Imtiaz and he was close to NS as head of IB.

During NS tenure, both Imtiaz and Javed were appointed..
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