Editing Pervez Musharraf (section)

===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>