Mustansir Billah

Brigadier
Mustansir Billah
Military career
Allegiance Pakistan
Branch
 Pakistan Army
Service years
till 1995
Rank
 Brigadier
CommandsDeputy Military Secretary at GHQ
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Brigadier Mustansir Billah (Urdu: مستنصر بالله) is a former general of the Pakistan Army. He was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for being party to an attempted coup d'état in 1995 against the civilian government of Benazir Bhutto while he was still a serving Brigadier general. No political party was linked to this coup attempt as determined by the courts.

Brigadier Mustansar Billah, Deputy Military Secretary at GHQ was the alleged mastermind behind the 1995 Pakistani coup d'etat attempt.

Military career

In 1995, he plotted a coup against the Government of Benazir Bhutto along with Major General Zahirul Islam Abbasi. The coup named Operation Khalifa aimed at taking over the GHQ at the time of a Corps Commanders’ Conference, by eliminating key commanders, and then taking over the country with the ultimate objective of imposing a Taliban-style Sunni government.

Imprisonment and release

After the coup failed, He was court-martialed and imprisoned for 14 years in 1995 and released in 2009.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Arrest of senior officers for plotting a coup reveals threat Benazir faces from the Right". 28 June 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "Cover Story:Jihadis in the Ranks". Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "FUNDAMENTALIST COUP PLOT REPORTED IN PAKISTAN". 16 October 1995. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Ex-servicemen's conviction: SC dismisses review pleas". 8 January 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2021.[dead link]
  5. ↑ "Supreme Court rejects review pleas of 1995 coup plotters - The Nation". 9 January 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  6. ↑ "Jihadism and the military in Pakistan". 11 August 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2021.