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PAKISTAN: REACTION TO MILITARY COUP

(13 Oct 1999) English/Nat A bank holiday has been declared in Pakistan a day after its military undertook a military coup over the democratically elected government. Prime minister Nawaz Sharif remained under house arrest on Wednesday, after troops loyal to Army Chief General Pervaiz Musharraf staged a coup, overthrowing Pakistan's democratically elected government. Several other top ministers - including Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz and Information Minister Mushahid Hussein - are also believed to be under virtual house arrest. The bloodless coup was staged only hours after Sharif made an announcement to replace Musharraf as army chief and replaced him with his ally, General Zia Uddin, the former head of Pakistan's secret service. However, the streets of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad were calm as the public caught up with the sudden event on the morning newspapers. Pakistani troops briefly shut down state-run media on Tuesday and closed airports before announcing that the democratically elected government had been removed. Television then began broadcasting nationalistic songs and footage of Pakistani troops and heavy armour in parades before Musharraf himself addressed the nation to announce the coup. All national and international banks were closed for the day. The bank holiday on Wednesday was apparently to prevent a run on the currency. Tuesday's coup followed reports in recent weeks of a growing rift between the military and the civilian government in this impoverished and overwhelmingly Muslim country of 140 (m) million people. Meanwhile, India's army went on a state of high alert along the border, according to senior army sources from India's northern command in Kashmir. Instability in Pakistan would heighten tensions in South Asia, home of the world's two newest nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, which clashed earlier this year in a dispute over the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir. SOUNDBITE: (English) "There's still a feeling of uncertainty and we're just hoping that there should be a new government that would be stable." SUPER CAPTION: Vox Pop SOUNDBITE: (English) "Well there's an enormous political vacuum at the moment, it's very uncertain, the army chief has not announced whether we have martial law, whether he is going to set up a caretaker government. But I suspect they're going to set up a civilian government with a prime minister and a new president under martial law because the constitution will have to be abrogated and he's likely to bring in a cabinet of technocrats and neutral political figures who would be acceptable to the broad section of the political opposition as well as the population." Q - What do you think will happen to Nawaz Sharif ? "Well, again the army chief has said nothing on this. Clearly, there will probably be corruption charges and cases of incompetence, embezzlement, loan default, put up against Nawaz Sharif, his brother and his family." Q - Where do you think that this move is going to leave meaningful relationships with the neighbouring countries ? SUPER CAPTION: Ahmed Rashid, Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...