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Brigadier Mustansir Billah (Urdu: مستنصر بالله) is a former general of the Pakistan Army. He was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for being party to an attempted coup d'état against the civilian government of Benazir Bhutto in 1995 while he was still a serving Brigadier general. No political party was linked to this coup attempt as determined by the courts. Brigadier Mustansar Billah, Deputy Military Secretary at GHQ was the alleged mastermind behind the 1995 Pakistani coup d'etat attempt.