Unlike the public posturing seen today, Clinton’s intervention was marked by quiet but firm diplomacy that ultimately forced Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif into a humiliating climbdown.
In 2019, Musharraf was sentenced to death in absentia by the special court which found him guilty of high treason, for imposing a state of emergency on November 3, 2007, by keeping the Constitution in abeyance.
Musharraf, the last military dictator of Pakistan, followed a template similar to two of his predecessors, General Ayub Khan and General Zia-ul-Haq, of turning their political masters into immediate foes.
Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War in 1999 and Pakistan's last military ruler, died on Sunday in Dubai after a prolonged illness.
The split in the upper House over offering a prayer for a dead person was rare and an apt reflection of Musharrafs chequered legacy.
Then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had an unusually tough and dangerous job in the years after 9/11. Yet for years, he managed to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds.
He was gifted his birth certificate over six decades later during his visit here in 2005.
Pervez Musharraf, who died at 79 on February 5, will be remembered in Pakistan for losing the Kargil conflict, staging a coup and his prolonged battle with the judiciary
Pervez Musharraf had been receiving medical care in Dubai since 2016. He died aged 79 on February 5, 2023.
Musharraf passed away on Sunday in a Dubai hospital, according to media reports.”’Pervez Musharraf, Former Pakistani President, Dies of Rare Disease’: once an implacable foe of India, he became a real force for peace 2002-2007,” Tharoor said in a tweet.
The four-star general and former Pakistan president died aged 79 in Dubai on February 5.
Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the US war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has died, an official said Sunday.
His family, June 10, issued a statement on Twitter stating that he is at a stage where “recovery is not possible and organs are malfunctioning"
The former President of Pakistan died at a hospital in Dubai after prolonged illness
After reports about the former Pakistan Army chief’s demise started flooding the social media, his family clarified that he is neither dead nor on ventilator support, although his organs are malfunctioning.
A three-member tribunal on December 17 last year handed down death penalty to the 74-year-old retired general, now based in Dubai, after six years of hearing the high-profile treason case against him.
The Lahore HC ruling came in response to a petition filed challenging formation of a special court for the high treason case
The 86 page-long petition, filed by Advocate Azhar Siddique in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday on Musharraf's behalf, named the federal government and others as respondents, Dawn News reported.
A three-member special court bench sentenced 76-year-old Musharraf to death in absentia on Tuesday for high treason following a six-year legal case.
Former Pakistan President and military ruler Musharraf was sentenced to death in absentia on Tuesday for high treason following a six-year legal case. He has been living in Dubai since 2016 after Pakistan's Supreme Court lifted a travel ban allowing him to leave the country to seek medical treatment.
Musharraf's supporters have held small rallies across the country in his support since the court sentenced him to death after finding him guilty of imposing an emergency in violation of the constitution.
The high treason trial of the former military dictator, for clamping the state of emergency on November 3, 2007, was pending since December 2013
His statement came amid heightened tension between the two nuclear-armed countries after the February 14 suicide attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad that killed at least 40 CRPF soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.
The former Army chief has been declared an absconder due to his persistent failure to appear before a special trial court set up to try him in the case.
According to Muhammad Amjad, a former chairman of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) -- a political party floated by Musharraf in 2010 -- said the former president has to visit London for treatment in every three months due to the new unspecified ailment, Dawn news reported.