Son of former president and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General (retired) Pervez Musharraf, Bilal Musharraf shared an emotional letter that his father had sent him back in 1994.
The letter, dated July 18, 1994, was penned when the former president was posted as Director General Military Operations in the Pakistan Army and contained career advice for Bilal.
“Be honest, straightforward and upright in all your dealings; fair and just in your decisions,” read the letter. “Be bold and just in decision making – not impulsive and definitely not over-calculating. You have to strike the correct balance.”
Musharraf further stressed that confidence is the key to life and asked his son to be humble and sympathise with the needy and the helpless.
Bilal later deleted the letter from Twitter saying that it felt “self-promotional.”
On December 17, a special court in Pakistan had sentenced Musharraf to death in the long-drawn high treason case against him. The case against the former president related to the imposition of emergency rule in Pakistan in 2007.
