Musharraf was born on August 11, 1943, in Delhi, British India, to an Urdu-speaking family, the son of Syed Musharrafuddin and Begum Zarin Musharraf (c. 1920–2021). Pervez Musharraf’s great-grandfather was a tobacco merchant who migrated from Piranshahr to the Indian subcontinent.
His family was Muslim Sayyids who claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad. Syed Musharraf graduated from Aligarh Muslim University and entered the civil service, which was a highly regarded profession during British rule.
His great-grandfather was a tax collector, and his maternal grandfather was a qazi, so he came from a long line of government officials (judges). Zarin Musharraf, Musharraf’s mother, was born in the early 1920s in Lucknow and attended school there before graduating from Indraprastha College at Delhi University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She then married and focused on raising a family. His father, Syed, was an accountant who worked at the British Indian government’s foreign office before rising to the position of accounting director.
Pervez Musharraf Wife Age: How old is Sehba Musharraf?
Musharraf married Karachi-born Sehba on December 28, 1968. They had two children: a daughter, Ayla, who married film director Asim Raza, and a son, Bilal. He was also related to the influential Kheshgi family. His wife is 56.