Former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf died in a hospital in Dubai after suffering from a long-term illness. At the age of death, he was 79 years old.
The former ruler of Pakistan was born on 11th August 1943 in Delhi. Raised in Karachi and Istanbul, Musharraf completed his early education at St Patrick’s High School in Karachi. He studied both at Forman Christian College in Lahore and the Royal College of Defense in the United Kingdom.
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The journey with the military of this influential leader started in 1961 when he entered the Pakistan Military Academy. Three years later, in 1964, he was commissioned into the Pakistani Army. In 1991 Musharraf was promoted to the major general of the Pakistani Army.
Years later, Musharraf was also assigned to the charge of deputy military secretary and director general of military operations in Pakistan. He played an important role during the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan when the encouragement of Pakistani support for Taliban was incorporated.
The power gained in the national political circuit Musharraf took place when he was assigned as the head of the armed forces, by titling him as four-star general by Prime Minister Nawaz in 1998. After having a negative relationship between Nawaz and Musharraf for months, Nawaz pushed an unsuccessful attempt to remove Musharraf as army leader.
Which later led to the stage of the Pakistan army’s “coup d’etat” in 1999 against Nawaz to remove him from the presidential position of Pakistan. And eventually, Musharraf became the president of Pakistan in 2001. He appointed Zafarullah Jamali and later Shaukat Aziz as Prime Minister.
After banning trade unions following a push for social liberalism under an “enlightened moderation program” and promoting economic liberalization, the economic instability of Pakistan started to rise in a large way, as inequality started to boom. For abusing human rights, Musharraf’s government was accused boldly, and all of these points led to several assassination attempts on him, though he survived all.
After Aziz’s resignation as prime minister and approval of the suspension of the constitution in 2007, Musharraf’s position as president became shaky. In order to avoid impeachment in 2008, Musharraf tendered his resignation and immigrated to London in a self-imposed exile.
After the killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Musharraf has been declared a fugitive. Musharraf, living in exile in Dubai since 2016, was also in the procedure of being trialed for the treason case of suspending the constitution in 2007.
In 2013, Musharraf returned to Pakistan and attempted to take part in the general election of Pakistan, but was declared disqualified to participate after the declaration of an arrest warrant against him and Aziz for their accusation of having involvement in the murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti and Benazir Bhutto.
Though later annulled by the Lahore high court, Musharraf was sentenced to death in 2019 for the treason charges of suspending the constitution in 2007.
Due to facing difficulties from several sicknesses, Musharraf left for Dubai in March 2016 for medical checkups and had not returned there in Pakistan since. The former military ruler of Pakistan has been suffering from complications aroused by a sickness called amyloidosis and was admitted to the hospital for treatment of that sickness immediately.
