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The nine lives of Gen Musharraf
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Gen Pervez Musharraf has in his book, In the Line of Fire, prayed to God to get more than the proverbial nine lives of a cat, because according to his own count, he has already used all the nine chances.
Writing in the Prologue: Face to Face with Terror, Musharraf gave details of all the nine times he could have died and escaped. “I first avoided death as a teenager in 1961 when I was hanging upside down from the branch of a mango tree and it broke. When I hit the ground, my friends thought I was dead.”
“In 1972 when I was leading a company of commandos as a Major in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, I should have been on a plane of PIA, which crashed into a glacier on a flight from Gilgit to Islamabad. At the last minute I hadn’t boarded it.” The third life Musharraf got when he did not board the C-130 which killed Gen Ziaul Haq and the then US ambassador on board. Musharraf was being selected as Zia’s military secretary but at the last moment another Brigadier was picked. As MS he would have been with Zia.
My closest call was in 1998 when as Commander of the Mangla Corps I was called to the GHQ for a conference. After the conference I went off with a friend to play bridge but my Commander of Aviation brought a helicopter to fly me back to Mangla. I would have readily gone but since I was not traceable, he flew back alone and the chopper crashed and he died.
The fifth life, he says, he got on October 12, 1999, when Nawaz Sharif stopped his plane from landing and when the plane had only seven minutes of fuel was remaining. I also had two brushes with death in the Indo-Pak wars of 1965, he wrote, which accounted for his 6th and 7th lives.
The devastating assassination attempts in December of 2003 on his life in Rawalpindi completed the count of his nine lives. Now he prays that if the proverb of nine lives is true, God should extend his quota.
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