Islamabad
CNN
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Pakistan’s former President General Pervez Musharraf has died in Dubai after a protracted sickness at Dubai American Hospital, in line with a press release from the Pakistani navy. He was 79 years outdated.
In a press release despatched to CNN, senior navy officers expressed their “heartfelt condolences” on the “sad demise of General Pervez Musharraf.”
“May Allah bless the departed soul and give strength to the bereaved family,” the assertion learn.
The former chief, who had been residing in self-imposed exile in Dubai within the United Arab Emirates, seized energy from former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a navy coup in 1999 and appointed himself president in 2001, whereas remaining head of the military. He continued to steer Pakistan as president till 2008.
His time period was punctuated by two failed assassination makes an attempt in 2003. In November 2007, he declared a state of emergency, suspended Pakistan’s structure, changed the chief decide and blacked out unbiased TV shops.
Musharraf stated he did so to stabilize the nation and to combat rising Islamist extremism. The motion drew sharp criticism from the United States and democracy advocates. Pakistanis brazenly referred to as for his removing.
Under strain from the West, Musharraf later lifted the state of emergency and referred to as elections, held in February 2008, through which his social gathering fared badly.
He stepped down in August 2008 after the governing coalition started taking steps to question him.
Musharraf then went into exile however returned to Pakistan in 2013 with the purpose of operating within the nation’s nationwide elections. Instead, his plans unraveled as he grew to become entangled in an online of courtroom circumstances referring to his time in energy.
In 2019, he was sentenced to dying in absentia for prime treason. The ruling was later overturned.
Musharraf had been residing in Dubai since March 2016, when Pakistan’s Supreme Court lifted a journey ban, permitting him to depart the nation to hunt medical therapy there.
He was married to Sehba Musharraf and had a son and a daughter.
