Answer:
A military coup is an action taken by the military to unseat a legally elected government and put themselves in power. Pakistan under General Musharraf's cannot be called a true democracy because during General Musharraf' rule, the legally elected representatives of the people could not take the final decisions and so were not really the rulers. The power for taking the final decisions rested with the Army headed by Musharraf, and they had not been elected the rulers. After taking power, Musharraf passed a Legal Framework Order, empowering him as President to dismiss the provincial and national assemblies.
So even though there was an elected parliament, it had no real powers and thus this cannot be called a democracy.
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