Ans: Dismissal of Nawaz Sharif’s Second Government:
Nawaz Sharif was very confident due to the heavy mandate; people had given
him in the last general elections. He believed that all the institutions of the state
should respect this mandate and obey his orders. A rift between the civil
government, and the army chief emerged due to Kargil War. .Nawaz Sharif
dismissed the Chief of the army staff General Parvez Musharraf at a time when
he was in an aeroplane on his way back from a visit abroad. During meantime,
the Prime Minister had administered oath to the newly appointed army chief. A
group of senior army officers prevented the newly appointed army chief from
taking charge of duties, conducted safe landing of Parvez Musharraf’s plane in
Karachi and announced that the Prime Minister was dismissed and put under
house arrest. General Parvez Musharraf took over as ‘Chief Executive’ of the
country on Oct 12, 1999. Nawaz Sharif and his close friends were arrested. The
Prime Minister was indicted under the so-called ‘Plane Hijacking Case’,