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To: JPR who wrote (8542)	10/19/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Well, I wish you good luck on your road to recovery!<g>

To: JPR who wrote (8542)	10/19/1999 2:35:00 PM
From: ratan lal	Respond to of 12475

JPR This might interest some. timesofindia.com Delhi-born Musharraf has roots in Walled City By Suhail Haleem NEW DELHI: The man who has set out to change the course of history in Pakistan was born in a sprawling haveli at Kucha Saadullah Khan, now a congested and dirty locality behind Golcha cinema in the walled city. General Pervez Musharraf, who deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a sensational bloodless coup, spent his early childhood in the ''Nehar wali haveli'', parts of which have long since given way to a commercial and residential complex. However, a small dilapidated portion of the original structure still stands. Two small rooms on the first floor were occupied by a driver who packed up and left a couple of months back. The haveli, like most evacuee properties on either side of the divide, was occupied by the locals when riots broke out in 1947 and people fled to save their lives. However, none of the neighbours has any inkling of who lived there at the time of partition or who owns the rundown property now. The high roofs and arches of the haveli are believed to have earlier witnessed history in the middle of the eighteenth century when it was occupied by a ''wazir'' (minister) in the court of Bahadur Shah Zafar - the last Mughal emperor. The dingy four-storeyed Gola market behind Golcha cinema occupies part of the haveli which was bought by Gen Musharraf's grandfather, Qazi Mohtashimuddin, when he retired as a commissioner in undivided Punjab. General Musharraf is the second of three sons of Syed Musharrafuddin, a cashier with the directorate-general of civil supplies in Delhi who was absorbed into the foreign service when he migrated to Pakistan at the time of partition. He rose to be joint secretary in the foreign office. The information was provided to UNI on condition of anonymity by a first cousin of Syed Musharrafuddin. The general's uncle, now aged past 80, runs a small business from a dilapidated shop in a narrow bylane near the Jama Masjid. Age has withered his frame but his mental faculties are astonishingly sharp. It is with a lump in the throat that he reminisces about his nephew, hamara khoon (our blood), who made it big, and how the family migrated. ''Those were terrible times. Riots had broken out and there was blood and mayhem everywhere. Syed Musharrafuddin managed to reach Gul-i-Rana, the mansion of Nawab Liaqat Ali Khan which later became the official residence of the Pakistan high commissioner. What happened after that, I do not know.'' (Nawab Liaqat Ali Khan, who served as finance minister in the interim government, later became the first prime minister of Pakistan.) Pervez was the first to join the army from a family of bureaucrats, he said. ''I have not seen him (Musharraf) since my cousin migrated to Pakistan. I was there when he was born in the August of 1943. I also was born in the same haveli. The partition shattered my life and divided the family. I saw my daughter-in-law (the general's wife) for the first time when the newspapers carried her photograph after the change of guard in Pakistan. But Musharrafuddin, a graduate from Aligarh Muslim University, visited India thrice in the last decade - twice to attend marriages of close relatives,'' he said. On his first visit, Syed Musharrafuddin was joined by his elder brother Ashraf who is settled in London. ''I myself visited Pakistan a few years back but did not meet Pervez who was then stationed in Islamabad. Musharrafuddin came to meet me in Karachi where I was staying with some relatives.'' Gen Musharraf's elder brother, Javed, who was educated at the Anglo-Arabic school at Ajmeri Gate, was a top officer with the Pakistan foreign service while the youngest, Naved, practices medicine in the U.S. Gen Musharraf's paternal grandfather, Qazi Fazle Ilahi, was a tehsildar, also in undivided Punjab. The family had another ancestral haveli at Tiraha Bairam Khan, about a hundred yards down the road from Kucha Saadullah Khan. Incidentally, the house where Sir Syed Ahmad Khan lived is almost mid-way between the two havelis. Gen Musharraf's uncle claims to be one of only three surviving relatives who lived with Pakistan's new first family in the pre-partition days. One cousin is settled in Meerut and the other in Lucknow. Ashraf had government accommodation at Paharganj and when the haveli at Kucha Saadullah became a little cramped, Musharrafuddin moved in with him. Musharrafuddin, he said, was a very good singer with a literary bent of mind. Every Sunday there would be an adabi nashist (literary gathering) where the poetry of top poets would be recited and discussed threadbare. Husna Begum, another first cousin now dead, ran for the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly from meerut city in the early seventies. Another cousin, Qazi Humayun, is settled in Lucknow. ratan