Islamabad: Former President of Pakistan General (retd) Pervez Musharraf (79) passed away. Geo News reported quoting hospital sources that he died at a hospital in Dubai on Sunday. Musharraf was undergoing treatment at the American Hospital in Dubai.
Musharraf was born on 11 August 1943 in Delhi and completed his primary education at St. Patrick’s High School, Karachi. The former president did his higher education at Foreman Christian College, Lahore.
Musharraf was declared a fugitive in former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination case and the Red Mosque priest’s murder case. The former president, who has lived in Dubai since 2016, faces sedition charges for suspending the constitution in 2007.
The former military ruler went to Dubai in March 2016 for treatment and never returned.
Musharraf’s family said in a Twitter message that he was admitted to the hospital due to complications from a condition called amyloidosis.
He was promoted to four-star general by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1998, and Musharraf rose to national prominence after making him the head of the armed forces. Musharraf led the 1999 Kargil incursion that led to the war between India and Pakistan.
In 2020, the Lahore High Court declared all actions taken by the Nawaz Sharif government against Musharraf as ‘unconstitutional’.
In 2019, a special court sentenced him to death. Musharraf came to power in 1999 through a coup defeat, ousting the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Faced with impeachment following the 2008 election, Musharraf was forced to resign as president and went into self-imposed exile in Dubai.
