1999 Pakistani coup d'état
The 1999 military takeover in Pakistan was a bloodless "coup d'état" initiated by the military staff at the Joint Staff HQ working under Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Pervez Musharraf. The instigators seized control of the civilian government of publicly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 October 1999. Simultaneously tenuring as Chief of Army Staff andChairman of the Joint Chiefs. On 14 October Gen. Musharraf, acting as the country's Chief Executive, issued a controversial provisional order that suspended the Constitution of Pakistan.