Pervez Musharraf, the former president of Pakistan, passed away after a protracted illness. At the age of 79
Although his family has been attempting to get him back to Pakistan since last year, there has been no official word on whether his remains will be returned there.
Pervez Musharraf, a former president of Pakistan and the head of the army, passed away today at the American Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, after battling a protracted illness and years of voluntary exile. He was 79.
Although his family has been attempting to get him back to Pakistan since last year, there has been no official word on whether his remains will be returned there.
Mr. Musharraf was suffering from amyloidosis, a condition that caused his organs to malfunction. Connective tissues and organs are impacted by this illness, which prevents regular operation. It is an uncommon disease brought on by the accumulation of amyloid, an aberrant protein, in many human tissues and organs.
Mr. Musharraf has spent the previous eight years living in Dubai while facing accusations for the 2007 murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. He had previously stated that he wanted to spend the “rest of his life” in Pakistan and that he would do it as soon as feasible.
After a successful bloodless military coup in 1999, the former President became Pakistan’s ninth president. He held the positions of 7th top general from 1998 to 2007 and 10th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of Pakistan (CJCSC) from 1998 to 2001.
He was regarded as the war’s mastermind and gave the order for his forces to march into India in order to shut off Leh from Srinagar.
Pakistani soldiers, whose presence he denied, were destroyed in the fighting that ensued in the summer of 1999 in the high highlands of Kargil. For Mr. Musharraf, who had advanced the plan while mostly keeping his Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the dark, it was a catastrophic military disaster.
Two years after Kargil, Mr. Musharraf emerged more powerful than ever, which is almost unbelievable.
When Mr. Musharraf attempted to leave the nation while on an official visit to Sri Lanka, Nawaz Sharif was detained, imprisoned, and then exiled.
In a bloodless coup supported by his Army, Mr. Musharraf elected himself president of Pakistan in June 2021.
For the following seven years, Pakistan’s intermittent democratic process will come to an end.
In July 2001, Pervez Musharraf visited India while he was still the president.
Mr. Musharraf, who was born in New Delhi in 1943, joined his parents in the mass migration of Muslims to the newly formed Pakistan when he was four years old. His mother was a teacher, his father worked in the foreign ministry, and the family practised a liberal, tolerant kind of Islam.
At the age of 18, he enlisted in the military and later rose to head an elite commando squad. He came to power by toppling Nawaz Sharif, who had tried to remove him for authorising an operation to conquer Kashmir that had brought Pakistan and India to the verge of war.
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s then Chief Justice, was unlawfully suspended by Mr. Musharraf on March 9, 2007, which led to widespread political unrest and the downfall of the military dictator.
Political parties put pressure on him to resign as President in August 2008 after the elections the following year. After the 26/11 attack in November of that year, relations between India and Pakistan deteriorated.