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I first met Pervez Musharraf, then a Brigadier, in the summer of 1990 at the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), London, where I had done the same course in 1984 along with Brig Moinuddin Haider, who later became Musharraf’s mentor and interior minister. Lt Gen Haider, six years his senio
General Pervez Musharraf was the fourth military leader of Pakistan, who rose to power in 1999 by toppling the Nawaz Sharif-led government in a coup d etat. He remained the longest-serving.