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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: JPR who wrote (8489)10/17/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: JPR  Read Replies (2) of 12475
 
Drama over pakistani skies:

PM Sharif sent his COAS to Sri Lanka with a mind set to arrest him on arrival in a small airport outside Karachi, by name NawabShah.
The plane was out of Sri Lanka at about 1PM on Tuesday the 6th. 2hrs in the air, Sharif announced dismissal of Gen.Musharaff and appointed his friend, crony and ISI chief Gen. Ziauddin. Flight PK805 was nearing Karachi 5 1/2 hrs after take-off from Ceylon. Captain Sarwat was refused clearance to land in karachi. He was asked to go to Oman in Persian Gulf or Allahabad in India. At the first request for clearance to land, captain had about 1 hr and few miutes of fuel and was circling Karachi. With only seven mts of fuel left, captain was frantic and was diverted to land in a small airport near Karachi, Nawabshah but refused to land his Air Bus in the tiny airport at Nawabshah. When the PM's men were dispatched to Nawabshah in a small airplane to arrest Gen. Musharaff, thinking that the airbus would land there. At that time the military got wind of skunk works on the part of Sharif to arrest Gen.Musharaff. With seven minutes of fuel left Gen.Musharaff ordered the tower for clearance to land & called his buddy General Usmani, who immediately raced to Karachi airport and took control of the air traffic controllers' tower. Everything else is history.
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