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Coup after Coup
August 18, 2008
Khan staged a coup, merely 11 years after Pakistan came to being, to pre-empt the country's first general election against the backdrop of fears that political parties against security alliance with the US could come to power.
The coup is said to have been backed by the US.
Image: General Yahya Khan with the then American President Richard M Nixon.
Also read: Nothing will change in Pakistan
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