Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf has written his autobiography ‘In The Line of Fire’ that has been published from New York.
He has revealed many ’secrets’ which were under carpet for so many years. He Praised Kargil War and so-called freedom struggle in Kashmir and criticized AQ Khan to export centrifuge designs to different countries including India through his Dubai-based network.
Further Musharraf has revealed another story about his continuous fight with death. He has written his story of ditching death on several occasions since 1961 when he was a teenager.
# In 1961, once he was hanging upside down from the branch of a tree and it suddenly had broken up.
# In 1972, he, as a Major, was in the mountainous Northern Areas of Pakistan. He gave up his seat on a flight to carry the bodies of two soldiers. The plane had crashed into a glacier up in the Himalayas.
# In 1988, Musharraf was about to select as Zia ul-Haq’s military secretary and was expected to be with him in the C-130 airplane that crashed on Aug 17, 1988. At the eleventh hour, another brigadier was appointed to the post and was with him in the plane and died.
# In 1998, as a lieutenant general commanding the Mangla Corps, he had to return back to Rawalpindi army headquarters. He could not ride back in the helicopter that was crashed.
# On October 12, 1999, as Army Chief, he was returning from Colombo to Karachi, he was in the middle in the air with less fuel and all runways and airports were closed. The Army took control of Karachi Airport and he landed safely with only seven minutes of fuel to spare.
# In 2001, when he was on the way from New York to Pakistan after the United Nations Summit, there was a bomb threat in the plane. The plane returned to New York. Later it was found as a hoax.
# On Dec 14, 2003, when he was returning to Army House in Rawalpindi from Karachi he escaped from a powerful bomb blast.
# On Dec 25, 2003, Musharraf escaped unhurt from two suicide car bombers’ attack. The third car bomber did not succeed that could have killed him.
He writes further in the book that the story of his life matches with the story of Pakistan right from beginning. He writes about this book as
this is not only a biography of a man, but of Pakistan as well.
