Posted on 02/05/2023 4:59:52 AM PST by DoodleBob
Pakistan's former president General Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999, has died aged 79.
The former leader - who was president between 2001 and 2008 - died in Dubai after a long illness, a statement from the country's army said. He had survived numerous assassination attempts, and found himself on the front line of the struggle between militant Islamists and the West.
He supported the US "war on terror" after 9/11 despite domestic opposition.
In 2008 he suffered defeat in the polls and left the country six months later.
When he returned in 2013 to try to contest the election, he was arrested and barred from standing. He was charged with high treason and was sentenced to death in absentia only for the decision to be overturned less than a month later.
He left Pakistan for Dubai in 2016 to seek medical treatment and had been living in exile in the country ever since.
Musharraf died in hospital on Sunday morning. His body will be flown back from the United Arab Emirates to Pakistan on a special flight after his family submitted an application to do so, local TV channel Geo News reports.
In the statement Pakistan's military expressed its "heartfelt condolences" and added: "May Allah bless the departed soul and give strength to bereaved family."
Pakistan's President Arif Alvi prayed "for eternal rest of the departed soul and courage to the bereaved family to bear this loss."
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also expressed his condolences, as did the country's military leaders.
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Pakistan has spent its entire history jumping from one crisis to another.
Musharraf’s time was a rare calm period. One of the better leaders they have had, and a staunch US ally.
....probably so, but wasn’t his nickname “Mr. Ten Percent” because he always got a cut of virtually any kind of financial dealings, just like our current PoS Biden....? Jus’ askin’......
Neocon checks in.
Where was Osama bin Laden?
Did the ISI know anything.
will the Awan brothers resurface?
Zero people with dual citizenships should be allowed to work in our government.
Especially anything related to national security issues.
I don’t care if it’s a Mexican janitor.
For a Pakistani president to die of old age is an accomplishment. RIP.
I'm sure he did. If he held it to ten percent, he was reliably corrupt.
Basket-case of a country. Why is that I wonder....
Yet they have nukes.
“Where was Osama bin Laden? Did the ISI know anything.”
The ISI knew exactly as much as the CIA did.
From what we have learned since, it is very clear that the CIA kept the Osama card up their sleeve until a useful moment to play it.
They played it in 2011 to get Obama reelected. In retrospect I bet they regret not waiting until 2016 to get Hillary over the finish line.
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