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New Delhi: February marks 70 years since the first ever coup was attempted in Pakistan â popularly known as the Rawalpindi Conspiracy. The military was aided in the attempted coup by the political far-Left but the efforts proved significantly unsuccessful.
Military coups have been common in Pakistan and the first such effort was made as early as 1951, just four years after the country was formed. The country has since spent several decades under military rule.
ThePrint tells you more about the Rawalpindi Conspiracy and the other more successful coup attempts.
Rawalpindi ConspiracyÂ
Brainchild of Major General Mohammad Akbar Khan, Chief of the General Staff of the Pakistani army who was honoured the Distinguished Service Order by the British, the Rawalpindi Conspiracy was borne out of his dissatisfaction “with the moral and material support that the then prime minister Liaquat Ali Khanâs government had provided to the Pakistani fighters” when