Pervez Musharraf, the former president of Pakistan and chief of the army's staff, passed away today at the American Hospital in Dubai, UAE, after a lengthy bout with serious illness. He had lived for years in self-imposed exile. He was 79.
Despite the fact that his family has been attempting to bring him home since last year, there has been no official communication regarding whether his body will be returned to Pakistan.
A condition known as amyloidosis caused Mr. Musharraf's organs to malfunction. Connective tissues and organs are affected, preventing normal function. It is a rare condition brought on by the accumulation of an abnormal protein known as amyloid in the body's organs and tissues.
Mr. Musharraf has lived in Dubai for the past eight years despite the fact that he is facing charges in his home country for the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He had previously stated that he wanted to return to Pakistan as soon as possible and spend the "rest of his life" there.
After a peaceful military coup in 1999, the former president of Pakistan became the country's tenth president. From 1998 to 2001, he was Pakistan's 10th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), and from 1998 to 2007, he was Pakistan's 7th top general.
He was known as the one who planned the Kargil war and gave his troops the order to enter India to stop Leh from reaching Srinagar.
In the war that ensued in the summer of 1999, Pakistani soldiers whose presence he denied were wiped out in the Kargil highlands. Mr. Musharraf, who had continued with the plan while largely keeping his Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the dark, suffered a catastrophic military setback.
Mr. Musharraf emerged stronger than ever two years after Kargil, which is almost unbelievable.
Nawaz Sharif was detained, imprisoned, and exiled after attempting to prevent Mr. Musharraf from returning to the country while he was on an official tour of Sri Lanka.
In 1999, Mr. Musharraf made himself president of Pakistan in a peaceful coup with the support of his army.
For the next seven years, Pakistan's democratic process would stop and start.
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