Musharraf's March
Key dates from President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's nine years in command of Pakistan's army and his ascent to the presidency.
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appoints Musharraf chief of army staff.
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Pakistani and Indian troops clash at Kargil in divided Kashmir. Sharif later orders Musharraf to withdraw under U.S. pressure.
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Musharraf takes power in a coup after Sharif tries to fire him and prevent his plane from landing. Sharif is jailed, then exiled.
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Musharraf says Pakistan will drop its support for the Taliban in Afghanistan and fight terrorism alongside the United States.
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A Pakistani-U.S. operation nets Abu Zubayda, the first of a string of al Qaeda leaders captured in Pakistan after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Explosives wreck a bridge in Rawalpindi just after Musharraf's car has passed. Days later, Musharraf survives twin suicide car bombings on the same road.
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The army launches the first of a series of operations against al Qaeda hideouts in Pakistan's tribal regions along the Afghan border.
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The military signs a peace deal with tribes and militants in the North Waziristan region. The deal, criticized by the United States, unravels the next year.
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Army commandos storm Islamabad's Red Mosque, where fighting killed about 100 people, most of them suspected militants.
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Musharraf imposes a state of emergency, suspending the constitution, purging the courts and clamping down on dissent.
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Gen. Ashfaq Kayani becomes army chief, leaving Musharraf to contend with Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, another former prime minister back from exile, as a civilian president.
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Musharraf started a new five-year term as a civilian president, promising to lift a state of emergency by Dec. 16 and restore the constitution before January elections. His inauguration ceremony came a day after he ended a four-decade military career as part of his long-delayed pledge not to serve as both president and army chief.
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Pakistan's ruling party conceded defeat after opposition parties routed allies of President Pervez Musharraf in parliamentary elections that could threaten the rule of America's close ally in the war on terrorism. The results cast doubt on the political future of Musharraf, who was re-elected to a five-year term last October in a controversial parliamentary ballot.
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Ruling coalition leaders announce they will seek Musharraf's impeachment.
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Musharraf announced his resignation, ending a nearly nine-year tenure that opponents said was hampering the country's shaky return to democracy. An emotional Musharraf said he wanted to spare Pakistan from a dangerous power struggle with opponents vowing to impeach him. He said he was satisfied that all he had done "was for the people and for the country."
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Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, began his term as Pakistan's new president three days after winning an election by legislators.
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Credits:
CBS/AP
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