Recalling the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case
Recalling the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case
A new book sheds light on Pakistan’s first attempted coup d’état
Pakistanis in 2021 vaguely recall The Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case of 1951 that saw a group of military and civilian personalities being imprisoned for trying to overthrow the government before being released in 1956 under a general amnesty. Captain (retd.) Zafarullah Poshni one of the inmates of the Hyderabad Central Jail revived the memory of the failed conspiracy in 2019’s
Prison Interlude: The Last Eyewitness Account of the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.
In 1951, 11 officers of the Armed Forces of Pakistan, along with four eminent civilians, were arrested for planning to stage the country’s first coup d’état. The list of the arrestees appeared as follows: