Brigadier
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Mustansir Billah ( ur, مستنصر بالله) is a former general of the
Pakistan Army. He was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for being party to an attempted
coup d'état in 1995 against the civilian government of
Benazir Bhutto while he was still a serving Brigadier general. No political party was linked to this coup attempt as determined by the courts.
Brigadier Mustansar Billah, Deputy
Military Secretary at
GHQ was the alleged mastermind behind the
1995 Pakistani coup d'etat attempt.
Military career
In 1995, he plotted a coup against the Government of
Benazir Bhutto along with
Major General
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Zahirul Islam Abbasi
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. The coup named
Operation Khalifa aimed at taking over the
GHQ at the time of a Corps Commanders’ Conference, by eliminating key commanders, and then taking over the country with the ultimate objective of imposing a
Taliban
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-style Sunni government.
Imprisonment and release
After the coup failed, He was court-martialed and imprisoned for 14 years in 1995 and released in 2009.
See also
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1995 Pakistani coup d'état attempt
The Pakistan coup attempt of 1995 or Operation Khalifa was a secretive plot hatched by renegade military officers and against the government of Benazir Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The plotters aimed to overthrow the constitutional ...
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Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization
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Benazir Bhutto
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Islamism
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History of Pakistan
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Pakistani Armed Forces
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References
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Pakistani generals
Pakistan Army personnel who were court-martialed
Pakistani military attachés
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)