islamabadPakistan’s former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil war in 1999, held talks with India on various important issues including the Kashmir issue. The four-star general, who ruled Pakistan in a dictatorial manner, died in Dubai on Sunday at the age of 79. He was born in Delhi.
August 1943: Musharraf was born in 1943 in Delhi. After partition in 1947, his family moved to Pakistan.
June 1964: Musharraf joined the Pakistan Military Academy.
October 1999Musharraf, the then army chief, led a bloodless military coup, ousted then-prime minister Nawaz Sharif and installed himself as head of government in the capacity of chief executive.
June 2001After the resignation of the current President Mohammad Rafiq Tarar, Musharraf declared himself the President of Pakistan.
July 2001: Musharraf and the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee met for a two-day summit in Agra. The summit breaks down after two days, with both sides unable to reach an agreement on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.
13 December 200114 people were killed in the terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament. India has blamed Pakistan-based terrorist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad for the attack. Due to this attack, there was a gathering of the armies of India and Pakistan on the border and the Line of Control. The standoff ended only in October 2002.
March 2002Musharraf promises Pakistan will combat insurgency on its soil, but claims the country has rights over Kashmir.
September 2003Musharraf called for a ceasefire on the Line of Control during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly and later India and Pakistan reached an agreement to ease border tensions and end hostilities.
January 2004: Vajpayee and Musharraf hold direct talks at the 12th SAARC summit in Islamabad, and the foreign secretaries of the two countries meet later this year. This marked the beginning of the Composite Dialogue process, in which bilateral meetings are held between officials at various levels of government (including foreign ministers, foreign secretaries, military officials, border security officials, anti-narcotics officials, and nuclear experts).
November 2004: On the eve of a visit to Jammu and Kashmir, the new Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, announced that India would reduce troop deployment there.
September 2006: Musharraf and Singh agreed to set up an India-Pakistan institutionalized counter-terrorism mechanism.
November 2006Musharraf praised former Indian cricket team captain MS Dhoni for his dynamic batting skills and long hair. Dhoni, then a youngster, was part of the Indian cricket team that toured Pakistan for a series of ODIs and Test matches. Musharraf advised Dhoni not to cut his hair.