Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan

Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan ( born 1918 in Khangarh, Punjab, Pakistan; † 26 September 2003 in Islamabad ) was a leading Pakistani opposition politician and opponent of General Pervez Musharraf.

Biography

Khan worked as a lawyer for the Study of Law and was over fifty years of his legal practice into one of the most respected advocates of democracy, on the other hand was arrested repeatedly during the ruling military dictatorships in Pakistan.

He was the leader of the main opposition grouping, the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy ( Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy ), and of the resulting Democratic Party of Pakistan (Pakistan Democratic Party ). As an opponent of the influence of the armed forces of Pakistan politics, he spent during the 1960s and 1970s, several years in prison.

After the takeover by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999 he was again the leader of the political opposition, at least the conduct of elections and Zafarullah Khan Jamali also reached with the re-establishment of a Prime Minister in October 2002. Musharraf nevertheless remained as president and commander of the armed forces supreme political power person in the state. Khan urged Musharraf to abandon the post of army commander and also criticized several constitutional amendments by the general decree that reinforced the power of the armed forces.

In order to increase the pressure on Musharraf, Khan traveled in September 2003 to London, where he met with the located there in self-imposed exile since 1999, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. In addition, he met in Saudi Arabia with the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whose government was dismissed on 12 October 1999 by General Musharraf. Khan tried both of them there despite the expected detention to force to return to Pakistan, which he was not able.