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Ahmad Bashir (Punjabi, Urdu: احمد بشیر; March 24, 1923 – December 25, 2004) was a writer, journalist, intellectual and film director from Pakistan. He was the father of leading television artists Bushra Ansari, Asma Abbas, Sumbul Shahid and poet & author Neelam Ahmad Bashir and son Humayun Sheikh.
e. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir [a] (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. [2] He was subsequently incarcerated, tried and convicted on multiple corruption charges.
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Apr 12, 2019 · April 12, 2019. Share: I met Ahmad Bashir, born 96 years ago on the 24th of March last week, only once. I had just returned from my postgraduate education in Leeds in 2002 as a young, somewhat idealistic Marxist aiming to change the world.
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- Early life and military career
- Head of the Revolutionary Council
- President of Sudan
- Peace efforts with the south
- Conflict in Darfur and ICC charges
- Military retirement, continued rule, and secession
- Challenge to his rule
- Prosecution
Omar al-Bashir (born January 7, 1944, Hosh Wad Banaqa, Sudan) Sudanese military officer who led a revolt that overthrew the elected government of Sudan in 1989. He served as president of Sudan from 1993 until 2019, when he was ousted in a military coup.
Bashir was born into a peasant family that later moved to Khartoum, where he received his secondary education; he then joined the army. He studied at a military college in Cairo and fought in 1973 with the Egyptian army against Israel. Returning to Sudan, he achieved rapid promotion, and in the mid-1980s he took the leading role in the Sudanese army’s campaign against the rebels of the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).
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Bashir, frustrated with the country’s leadership, led a successful coup in 1989. He became chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation, which ruled the country. Bashir dissolved the parliament, banned political parties, and strictly controlled the press. He was supported by Hasan al-Turabi, a Muslim extremist and leader of ...
In October 1993 the Revolutionary Council was disbanded, and Bashir was appointed president of Sudan; he retained military rule, however. He was confirmed as president by an election held in 1996. Bashir’s ally Turabi was unanimously elected president of the National Assembly. On June 30, 1998, Bashir signed a new constitution, which lifted the ban...
Throughout this period, war with the SPLA continued, displacing millions of southerners. From time to time Bashir made tentative cease-fire agreements with fringe elements of the rebel force, but, when oil production started on a large scale in the border area between north and south in 1998, the dispute grew fiercer. Under international pressure, ...
Meanwhile, in August 2003, rebel black African groups in Darfur had launched an attack on Bashir’s government, claiming unfair treatment. To combat the Darfur uprising, the president enlisted the aid of the Arab militia known as Janjaweed, whose brutal methods terrorized the civilians in the region, prevented international aid organizations from delivering much-needed food and medical supplies, and displaced more than two million people, earning harsh criticism from international commentators. As the Darfur conflict raged on, Bashir reluctantly accepted the arrival of a very small African Union (AU) peacekeeping force but resisted attempts by the United Nations (UN) to send a much larger international force. The AU peacekeeping mission was eventually replaced by a joint UN-AU mission that began deployment in 2008.
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On July 14, 2008, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) called for an arrest warrant to be issued against Bashir. He was cited for crimes committed against humanity, war crimes, and genocide in Darfur. The Sudanese government, which was not a party to the treaty creating the ICC, denied the charges and proclaimed Bashir’s innocence. On March 4, 2009, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Bashir—the first time that the ICC sought the arrest of a sitting head of state—charging him with war crimes and crimes against humanity but not with genocide; in July 2010 the ICC issued a second arrest warrant, this time charging Bashir with genocide.
Meanwhile, in January 2010 Bashir retired from his post as commander of the armed forces, a position that he had held since the 1989 coup. He did so to comply with legal requirements regarding candidate eligibility so that he would be able to accept the nomination of the National Congress Party (NCP; successor party of the NIF) and stand in the upcoming (April 2010) presidential election, part of the country’s first multiparty elections in more than 20 years. Bashir was reelected in April with about 68 percent of the vote. However, the poll was clouded by the withdrawal of his two main opposition candidates prior to the contest, who alleged that there were already indications of fraudulent practices, and by the declaration by some international observers that the elections fell short of international standards.
Under the terms of the 2005 agreement with the southern rebels, a referendum for southern Sudanese citizens was held in January 2011 to determine whether the south would remain part of Sudan or secede. The results overwhelmingly indicated a preference to secede, which occurred on July 9, 2011. The economic fallout from the loss of the south’s oil fields and the ongoing conflict with Sudan’s new neighbour, South Sudan, as well as with rebel groups within Sudan, dominated Bashir’s presidency. Opposition groups and the general public increasingly expressed their dissatisfaction with the NCP’s inability to improve economic conditions, find a peaceful solution to end the rebel activity, or institute constitutional reforms. Bashir’s regime used harsh tactics in an attempt to quell public displays of dissent and to curb the media.
Bashir faced an unprecedented level of popular unrest that began in December 2018 and continued into the following year. What began as small spontaneous protests over frustrations with the country’s struggling economy and its impact on Sudanese living conditions soon transformed into larger-scale organized anti-government marches and demonstrations, in which many protestors and opposition leaders called for Bashir to step down. He refused, saying that he would leave only if he were voted out of office.
In February 2019, in the face of continued protests, Bashir took several actions, including declaring a state of emergency, dissolving the central and state governments, appointing a new prime minister, and banning unauthorized demonstrations. This did little to deter the organized protests, however. In March he resigned his position as head of the NCP and promised to hold a dialogue with the opposition and enact reforms. Bashir still would not step down, though, and demonstrations continued.
Within a week, Bashir was moved to the Kober prison, in Khartoum. Later that month, large sums of money were discovered in his home, which led to formal charges being brought against him for having committed corruption-related acts. He was convicted in December 2019 and sentenced to two years in a reform facility, rather than a prison, as Sudanese ...
Dec 25, 2023 · ISLAMABAD, Dec 25 (APP):Ahmad Bashir writer, journalist and intellectual was remembered on Monday on the occasion of his death anniversary. Born in Aimanabad near Gujranwala on March 24, 1923, Ahmed Bashir gained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Srinagar and went to Bombay for a career in acting but soon started writing for film magazines.
Bashir Ahmad (Urdu: بشیر احمد), (born October 12, 1982) is a Pakistani-American professional mixed martial artist who is known as the "God-father of Mixed Martial Arts Pakistan". He is famous for being the pioneer of mixed martial arts in Pakistan. He is currently signed with ONE Championship.
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