General Pervez Musharaf (A Bravest Military Chief of Pakistan Army)

Pervez Musharaf (A Bravest Military Chief of Pakistan Army)

Pervez Musharraf was born on 11 August 1943 to a family in Dehli India, four years before the independence of Pakistan. His father name was Syed Musharf and Mother Name is Zarin Musharraf. His Father graduated from Aligarh Muslim University, in India and was a civil servant for the Government of India. His Mother was born in the early 1920s, who was also an academic educated and graduated from Aligarh Muslim University.

Musharraf's first childhood home was neharwali haveli, literally "mansion by the canal". The house, located at the epicenter of India's ruling Mughal elite, is so large that in 2001 it housed eight different families.  The home's title deeds were written entirely in Urdu except for his father's English signature.

Musharraf and his family left for Pakistan on one of the last safe trains in August 1947, a few days before the independence took place. His father joined the Pakistan Civil Services and began to work for the new Pakistan government; eventually his father joined the Foreign Ministry, first taking the assignment in Turkey. In his boob In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Musharraf elaborates on his first experience with death, after falling off a mango tree.

Musharraf's family moved to Ankara in 1949, when his father became part of a diplomatic deputation from Pakistan to Turkey.  He had a dog named Whiskey that gave him a "lifelong love for dogs".He often played sports in his youth. In 1956 he left Turkey and returned to Pakistan in 1957 where he attended Saint Patrick's School in Karachi and was accepted at the Forman Christian College University in Lahore. At Forman, Musharraf declared his major in mathematics and performed extremely well in his collegiate mathematics, but later developed interest in Economics. …………………. To Be Continued