Bilal Musharraf

Bilal Musharraf

Bilal Musharraf (Urdu: بلال مشرف ) is the son of Sehba Musharraf and Pervez Musharraf, the former President of Pakistan. Bilal is married with two children, as is his only sibling, his sister Ayla.cite web | year = 2006 | month = August | url = http://www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk/Biography.aspx | title = General Pervez Musharraf | publisher = Office of the Press Secretary to the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan | accessdate = 2006-08-30]

Also that month, the family was held up at a San Francisco, California airport because security personnel detected traces of TNT in his son's diaper bag; they missed their United Airlines flight, but were cleared to depart and caught a later plane. [cite web | year = 2006 | month = August | url = http://www.pakistanlink.com/Community/2005/Mar05/25/08.htm | title = Nappy Bag of Musharraf's Grandson Causes Alarm! | publisher = Pakistan Link | accessdate = 2006-08-30 ] Musharraf's father has been criticized for allegedly allowing government contracts to Bilal's father-in-law, Brig. (r) Aftab Siddiqui. Mr. Siddiqui is a retired officer of the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers with an MS in Civil & Transportation Engineering from [http://www.berkeley.edu University of California at Berkeley] ; He is the founder and CEO of IDC. [cite web | year = 2007 | month = October | title=Chinese, Pakistani Firms to Jointly Build Light Railin Jordan | url = http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/071024/16/4c3ab.html | publisher=Yahoo! Finance|date=2007-10-24|accessdate=2007-10-24]

Articles "Evaporation Drops the Temperature," and "He had no choice!" that appeared on the web portal "Chowk" are credited to him. [cite web | year = 2002 | month = October | url = http://www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00000661&channel=civic%20center | title = He had no Choice! | publisher = Chowk | | accessdate = 2006-09-10 ] [cite web | year = 2002 | month = July | url = http://www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00000616&channel=university%20ave | title = Evaporation Drops the Temperature! |publisher = Chowk | accessdate = 2006-09-10 ] Bilal completed his B.S. in Actuarial Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and completed his MBA and MA in 2007 (Education) from Stanford University. [cite web | year = 2006 | month = October | url = http://sse.lums.edu.pk/project_team.htm#volunteers | title = LUMS SSE Volunteers | publisher = LUMS | accessdate = 2007-01-03 ] He is currently working for ePlanet, a global venture fund based out of Silicon Valley. [cite news|url=http://www.eplanetventures.com/en/team/team_ic_na_musharraf.html|title=Bio: Bilal Musharraf|publisher=ePlanet|accessdate=2007-10-26] In March 2005, Musharraf visited Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India with his octogenarian grandmother; the visit attracted considerable media attention. [cite web| year = 2005 | month = March | url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050321/nation.htm#3 | title = Lucknow impresses Musharraf's kin | publisher = Tribune India | accessdate = 2006-08-30 ]

Controversy

Recently, it was reported in the Pakistani blogosphere that Bilal Musharraf engaged in business deals of some nature with Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia. [cite web | url=http://www.teeth.com.pk/blog/2008/03/13/bilal-musharraf-cashing-in | title = Bilal Musharraf Cashing in ] A picture posted with the story raised some eyebrows since it showed Shahid Karimullah, Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, along with Bilal and the prince. In the same blog-post, a reader commented that Bilal has addressed a related issue with a mailing list at Stanford University. [cite news
url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=16527
title=Musharraf’s son accused of pocketing bounty for Dr Aafia
publisher=The News (Pakistan)
author=Usman Manzoor
date=2008-08-09
accessdate=2008-08-09
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