Editing Pervez Musharraf (section)

===Domestic politics===
Musharraf instituted prohibitions on foreign students' access to studying Islam within Pakistan, an effort that began as an outright ban but was later reduced to restrictions on obtaining [[Visa (document)|visas]].<ref>{{cite news |author1=Sappenfield, Mark |author2=Montero, David |name-list-style=amp |date=19 June 2007 |title=Could Pakistan fall to extremists? |newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0619/p07s01-wosc.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621183758/http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0619/p07s01-wosc.html |archive-date=21 June 2007}}</ref>

In December 2003, Musharraf made a deal with [[Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal|MMA]], a six-member coalition of hardline [[Islamist]] parties, agreeing to leave the army by 31 December 2004.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=December 2004|title=Musharraf's rule in Pakistan: Consolidation and controversy|journal=Strategic Comments|language=en|volume=10|issue=10|pages=1–2|doi=10.1080/1356788041004|s2cid=219693530|issn=1356-7888}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cAR1QiGaLPYC&q=%22Muttahida+Majlis-e-Amal%22+%22December+31,+2004%22|title=Strategic Digest|date=2005|publisher=Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.|volume=35|pages=130|language=en|issue=1–6|access-date=17 December 2019|archive-date=5 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205133814/https://books.google.com/books?id=cAR1QiGaLPYC&q=%22Muttahida+Majlis-e-Amal%22+%22December+31,+2004%22|url-status=live}}</ref> With that party's support, pro-Musharraf legislators were able to muster the two-thirds [[supermajority]] required to pass the Seventeenth Amendment, which retroactively legalised Musharraf's 1999 coup and many of his decrees.<ref name="The Irish Times">{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/pakistan-s-musharraf-wins-vote-of-confidence-1.964780|title=Pakistan's Musharraf wins vote of confidence|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|access-date=17 December 2019|archive-date=28 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728084158/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/pakistan-s-musharraf-wins-vote-of-confidence-1.964780|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Chhabra-2006">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UhsMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Seventeenth+Amendment%22|title=World Focus|last=Chhabra|first=Hari Sharan|date=2006|volume=27|pages=29|language=en|access-date=17 December 2019|archive-date=5 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205133811/https://books.google.com/books?id=UhsMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Seventeenth+Amendment%22|url-status=live}}</ref> Musharraf reneged on his agreement with the MMA<ref name="Chhabra-2006" /> and pro-Musharraf legislators in the Parliament passed a bill allowing Musharraf to keep both offices.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3971785.stm|title=Musharraf dual role bill passed|last=Abbas|first=Zaffar|date=1 November 2004|work=BBC News|access-date=17 December 2019|url-status=live|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217104324/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3971785.stm|archive-date=17 December 2019}}</ref>

On 1 January 2004, Musharraf had won a [[confidence vote]] in the [[Electoral College of Pakistan]], consisting of both houses of Parliament and the four provincial assemblies. Musharraf received 658 out of 1170 votes, a 56% majority, but many opposition and Islamic members of parliament walked out to protest the vote. As a result of this vote, his term was extended to 2007.<ref name="The Irish Times" />

Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali resigned on 26 June 2004, after losing the support of Musharraf's party, [[PML(Q)]]. His resignation was at least partially due to his public differences with the party chairman, [[Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain]]. This was rumoured to have happened at Musharraf's command. Jamali had been appointed with the support of Musharraf's and the pro-Musharraf PML(Q). Most PML(Q) parliamentarians formerly belonged to the Pakistan Muslim League party led by Sharif, and most ministers of the cabinet were formerly senior members of other parties, joining the PML(Q) after the elections upon being offered positions. Musharraf nominated [[Shaukat Aziz]], the minister for finance and a former employee of [[Citibank]] and head of Citibank Private Banking as the new prime minister.<ref>{{cite news |title=Musharraf's choice elected as new PM |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/musharrafs-choice-elected-as-new-pm-558039.html |work=The Independent |date=28 August 2004 |access-date=17 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217201625/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/musharrafs-choice-elected-as-new-pm-558039.html |archive-date=17 December 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2005, the [[Bugti]] clan attacked a gas field in Balochistan, after Dr. Shazia was raped at that location. Musharraf responded by dispatching 4,500 soldiers, supported by tanks and helicopters, to guard the gas field.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Walsh, Declan |title=Pakistan's gas fields blaze as rape sparks threat of civil war |newspaper=The Guardian |date=20 February 2005 |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/21/pakistan.declanwalsh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529184746/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/feb/21/pakistan.declanwalsh|archive-date=29 May 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>