The former dictator of Pakistan Pervez Musharrafpassed away in Dubai at 79 years of age after suffering a long illness, as announced by the Pakistani army this Sunday. Musharraf occupied since June 20, 2001 officially the presidency of his country until his forced resignation on August 18, 2008. Two years earlier, this soldier led a coup against Nawaz Sharif, who wanted to remove him after having appointed him head of the army a year earlier over higher-ranking officers.
Senior military commanders “express their sincere condolences on the death of General Pervez Musharraf,” according to a brief statement released on Sunday by the army press service. “May Allah bless the soul of the deceased and give strength to the bereaved family,” the statement said. “I can confirm that the late general breathed his last in Dubai this morning (…). He is no longer there,” a senior security official told AFP, asking that the name of the deceased not be revealed. he.
Musharraf won a five-year term as president in a referendum held in 2002, but reneged on his promises to leave the army command at the end of 2007. In December 2007, after the murder of the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and the crushing defeats suffered by his allies in the 2008 elections left Musharraf completely isolated, forced to resign and go abroad.
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In March 2012, Musharraf returned to Pakistan with the aim of leading his party in the legislative elections and defeating his then political rival, Nawaz Sharif, the man he ousted in 1999. They did not go to the polls, as The court barred Musharraf from running for office and left him open to a battery of charges against him for his actions while in power.
In 2016 Musharraf traveled to Dubai for medical treatment. Three years later, he was sentenced to death for treason for having decreed a state of emergency in 2007. The former dictator never attended the trial. However, the ruling was never enforced as a court later annulled it.