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Pervez Musharraf (Urdu: پرويز مشرف; born August 11, 1943 in Delhi, British India) is the current Military ruler of Pakistan. He took power on October 12, 1999 after a coup d'état and assumed the title of president of Pakistan on June 20, 2001.
Family background
General Musharraf's parents came from a educated middle class Syed family and both were college-educated. His mother, Begum Zehra Musharraf, studied English Literature. She worked for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and retired in 1986. Syed Musharraf-ud-Din, Musharraf's father, was a graduate of Aligarh University in India. He joined Pakistan's Foreign Service in a clerical position and progressed in his career, retiring as a Section Officer in the Foreign Ministry. He spent several years in the capacity of support staff in the Pakistan Embassy in Ankara, Turkey where Musharraf spent part of his childhood and learned to speak fluent Turkish.
General Pervez Musharraf was born in Daryaganj in Delhi, India and after the independence of Pakistan, in 1947, his family settled in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
General Musharraf is married to Begum Sehba Musharraf and has one son and a daughter. His brother is a medical doctor in Chicago.
Education
Musharraf attended Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi graduating in 1958 before going on to attend Forman Christian College in Lahore.
Military training
In 1961, he entered the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul and was later commissioned into the Pakistan Artillery. A graduate of the Staff College, Quetta, and the National Defense College, Rawalpindi, General Musharraf also a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies, United Kingdom.
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