Editing Pervez Musharraf (section)

==Early life==

===British India===
Musharraf was born on 11 August 1943 to an [[Urdu-speaking people|Urdu-speaking family]] in Delhi, British India<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] for further guidance -->,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Profile: Pervez Musharraf|newspaper=BBC News|date=16 June 2009|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4797762.stm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721102000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4797762.stm|archive-date=21 July 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="babyzarin">{{Cite news|title=India Remembers 'Baby Musharraf'|newspaper=BBC News|date=15 April 2005|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4449519.stm|access-date=15 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511082705/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4449519.stm|archive-date=11 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="dixit">{{Cite book|author=Dixit, Jyotindra Nath|year=2002|chapter=Implications of the Kargil War|title=India-Pakistan in War & Peace|edition=2nd|location=London |publisher=Routledge|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XnzRttnqExUC&pg=PA28 28–35] |isbn=978-0-415-30472-6}}</ref> the son of Syed Musharrafuddin<ref name="DEH">{{cite book |last=Harmon |first=Daniel E. |date=13 October 2008 |title=Pervez Musharraf: President of Pakistan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lgJ03ubVAN0C&q=pervez+musharraf+mother+zarin&pg=PA1 |publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com |page=1 |edition=Easyread Super Large 20pt |isbn=978-1-4270-9203-8 |access-date=2 November 2020 |archive-date=5 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205133803/https://books.google.com/books?id=lgJ03ubVAN0C&q=pervez+musharraf+mother+zarin&pg=PA1 |url-status=live }}</ref> and his wife Begum Zarin Musharraf ({{c.|1920}}–2021).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arynews.tv/en/musharrafs-mother-begum-zareen-musharraf-reaches-karachi/|title=Musharraf's mother reaches Karachi|author=Kashif, Imran|date=28 October 2014|location=Karachi|publisher=Arynews|access-date=17 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819051451/https://arynews.tv/en/musharrafs-mother-begum-zareen-musharraf-reaches-karachi/|archive-date=19 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="duggerbio" /><ref name="mombbc" /><ref>{{cite web| url = https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/15-Jan-2021/gen-pervez-musharraf-s-mother-dies-in-dubai| title = Gen Pervez Musharraf's mother dies in Dubai| date = 15 January 2021| access-date = 15 January 2021| archive-date = 17 August 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210817215444/https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/15-Jan-2021/gen-pervez-musharraf-s-mother-dies-in-dubai| url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVBtrZrxuDcC&q=pervez+musharraf | title=Pervez Musharraf | isbn=9781438104720 | last1=Worth | first1=Richard | last2=Kras | first2=Sara Louise | year=2007 | publisher=Infobase | access-date=5 February 2023 | archive-date=5 February 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205133805/https://books.google.com/books?id=IVBtrZrxuDcC&q=pervez+musharraf | url-status=live }}</ref> His family were Muslims who were also [[Sayyid]]s, claiming descent from the [[Prophets and messengers in Islam|Islamic prophet]] [[Muhammad]].<ref name="Free Press (publisher)"/> Syed Musharraf graduated from [[Aligarh Muslim University]] and entered the [[Indian Civil Service|civil service]], which was an extremely prestigious career under [[British Raj|British rule]].<ref name="ajamidog">{{Cite news|author=Ajami, Fouad|date=15 June 2011|title=Review: ''In the Line of Fire: A Memoir'' by Pervez Musharraf|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/books/review/ajami.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=11 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802204921/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/books/review/ajami.html?pagewanted=all|archive-date=2 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> He came from a long line of government officials as his great-grandfather was a tax collector while his maternal grandfather was a ''qazi'' (judge).<ref name="DEH"/> Musharraf's mother Zarin, born in the early 1920s, grew up in [[Lucknow]] and received her schooling there, after which she graduated from [[Indraprastha College]] at [[Delhi University]], taking a bachelor's degree in English literature. She then married and devoted herself to raising a family.<ref name="babyzarin" /><ref name="Free Press (publisher)"/> His father, Syed, was an accountant who worked at the foreign office in the British Indian government and eventually became an accounting director.<ref name="DEH"/>

Musharraf was the second of three children, all boys. His elder brother, Javed Musharraf, based in [[Rome]], is an economist and one of the directors of the [[International Fund for Agricultural Development]].<ref name="Family">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/1999/oct/22us1.htm|title=Rediff On The NeT: My brother, the general|work=Rediff.com|access-date=17 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011182158/http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/oct/22us1.htm|archive-date=11 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> His younger brother, Naved Musharraf, is an anaesthesiologist based in the state of [[Illinois]], in the United States.<ref name="Family"/>

At the time of his birth, Musharraf's family lived in a large home that belonged to his father's family for many years called ''Nehar Wali Haveli'', which means "House Next to the Canal".<ref name="DEH"/> Sir [[Syed Ahmed Khan]]'s family lived next door. It is indicative of "the family's western education and social prominence" that the house's title deeds, although written entirely in Urdu, were signed by Musharraf's father in English.<ref name="haveli">{{Cite news|last=Jacob|first=Satish|title=Musharraf's Family Links to Delhi|newspaper=BBC News|date=13 July 2001|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1436723.stm|access-date=15 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130325012747/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1436723.stm|archive-date=25 March 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Pakistan and Turkey===
Musharraf was four years old when India achieved independence and [[Partition of India|Pakistan was created]] as the homeland for India's Muslims. His family left for [[Dominion of Pakistan|Pakistan]] in August 1947, a few days before independence.<ref name="duggerbio">{{Cite news|author=Dugger, Celia W.|title=Pakistan Ruler Seen as 'Secular-Minded' Muslim|newspaper=The New York Times|date=26 October 1999|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/26/world/pakistan-ruler-seen-as-secular-minded-muslim.html|access-date=11 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911120229/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/26/world/pakistan-ruler-seen-as-secular-minded-muslim.html|archive-date=11 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="haveli" /><ref name="bbcfour">{{Cite news|title=Profile – Pervez Musharraf|newspaper= BBC 4|date=12 August 2003|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/profile/pervez-musharraf.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412102319/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/profile/pervez-musharraf.shtml|archive-date=12 April 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> His father joined the [[Pakistan Civil Services]] and began to work for the [[Government of Pakistan|Pakistani government]]; later, his father joined the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)|Foreign Ministry]], taking up an assignment in [[Turkey]].<ref name="duggerbio"/> In his autobiography ''[[In the Line of Fire: A Memoir]]'', Musharraf elaborates on his first experience with death, after falling off a mango tree.<ref>{{cite book |last=Musharraf |first=Pervez |title=In the Line of Fire: A Memoir |year=2006 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=9780743298438 |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7igVvi3aO-8C&q=Musharraf%20mango%20tree&pg=PA34 |access-date=15 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101105835/https://books.google.com/books?id=7igVvi3aO-8C&lpg=PA33&dq=Musharraf%20mango%20tree&pg=PA34 |archive-date=1 January 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Musharraf's family moved to [[Ankara, Turkey|Ankara]] in 1949, when his father became part of a diplomatic deputation from Pakistan to Turkey.<ref name="ajamidog" /><ref name="CNNprofile">{{cite news |title=Pakistan's Self-appointed Democratic Leader |publisher=CNN |date=4 May 2003 |url=http://articles.cnn.com/2002-07-10/world/musharraf.biog_1_sehba-musharraf-chief-of-army-staff-indo-pakistan-war?_s=PM:asiapcf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403225221/http://articles.cnn.com/2002-07-10/world/musharraf.biog_1_sehba-musharraf-chief-of-army-staff-indo-pakistan-war?_s=PM%3Aasiapcf |archive-date=3 April 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He learned to speak [[Turkish language|Turkish]].<ref name="worth">Worth, Richard. "Time of Trials". Pervez Musharraf. New York: Chelsea House, 2007. [https://books.google.com/books?id=IVBtrZrxuDcC&pg=PA32 pp. 32–39] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101105835/https://books.google.com/books?id=IVBtrZrxuDcC&pg=PA32 |date=1 January 2016}} {{ISBN|1438104723}}</ref><ref name="chitkara">Chitkara, M. G. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr5IoddTKb8C&pg=PA135 Pervez Bonaparte Musharraf] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101105835/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr5IoddTKb8C&pg=PA135 |date=1 January 2016}}". Indo-Pak Relations: Challenges before New Millennium. New Delhi: A.P.H. Pub., 2001. pp. 135–36 {{ISBN|8176482722}}</ref> He had a dog named Whiskey that gave him a "lifelong love for dogs".<ref name="ajamidog" /> He played sports in his youth.<ref name="duggerbio" /><ref name="factbox1" /> In 1956, he left Turkey<ref name="ajamidog" /><ref name="CNNprofile" /> and returned to Pakistan in 1957<ref name="worth"/> where he attended [[Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi|Saint Patrick's School]] in Karachi and was accepted at the [[Forman Christian College University]] in Lahore.<ref name="ajamidog" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=CNN.com - General Pervez Musharraf, President and Chief Executive of Pakistan - June 28, 2001|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/06/20/musharraf.biog/|access-date=2024-01-10|publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref>Adil, Adnan. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3850039.stm "Profile: Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112123005/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3850039.stm |date=12 November 2012}}. BBC News (29 June 2004).</ref> At Forman, Musharraf chose mathematics as a major in which he excelled academically, but later developed an interest in economics.<ref>Musharraf Regime and Governance Crises. United States: Nova Science Publishers. p. 275. {{ISBN|1-59033-135-4}}. Retrieved 6 June 2012</ref>