Published on Feb 05, 2023 05:32 PM IST
Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistan President and Chief of Army Staff, has passed away. He breathed his last at the American Hospital in Dubai after a prolonged illness. According to the family’s last statement, Musharraf was going through a “difficult stage where recovery was not possible and organs were malfunctioning.” 79-year-old Pervez Musharraf was facing treason charges for suspending the constitution in 2007 over the imposition of an extra-constitutional emergency, a punishable offence for which he was indicted in 2014. Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008, was declared a fugitive in the Benazir Bhutto murder case and the Red Mosque cleric killing case. Pervez Musharraf, who was the Army Chief, came to power in Pakistan. After a coup in 1999, he overthrew the Nawaz Sharif government. Musharraf was known as the architect of the Kargil war, which Pakistan lost to India.
