Pervez Musharraf was born on August 11th, 1943 in Delhi, British India. He came from a long line of civil servants. When Musharraf’s grandfather, Qazi Mohtashimuddin, retired as the commissioner of undivided Punjab he purchased the Neherwali Haveli section of the old walled-in city of Delhi, where Musharraf was born.
After the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, Musharraf’s family went to Pakistan, where his dad, Syed Musharraf Uddin, joined the Pakistan Foreign Service and later retired as the secretary of foreign affairs. Musharraf not only had a smart and politically active father, his mother, Zarin, had many accomplishments and got a high job the United Nations. She received her master’s degree from the University of Lucknow in 1944 (“Pervez Musharraf” 1).
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