<P> The 1999 Pakistani coup d'état was a bloodless coup d'état in which the Pakistan Army and then - Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee , General Pervez Musharraf , seized the control of the civilian government of publicly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 October 1999 . Two days into seizing the government , on 14 October 1999 , General Musharraf , who then - acted as the country 's Chief Executive , declared a state of emergency by issuing a Provisional Constitutional Order that suspended the writ of the Constitution of Pakistan . </P>
<P> The 1999 Pakistani coup d'état was a bloodless coup d'état in which the Pakistan Army and then - Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee , General Pervez Musharraf , seized the control of the civilian government of publicly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 October 1999 . Two days into seizing the government , on 14 October 1999 , General Musharraf , who then - acted as the country 's Chief Executive , declared a state of emergency by issuing a Provisional Constitutional Order that suspended the writ of the Constitution of Pakistan . </P>
who led a military coup in pakistan in october 1999
who led a military coup in pakistan in october 1999
Pakistan Army General Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan Army General Pervez Musharraf