Former Pakistan President Musharraf passed away: He was undergoing treatment for a long time in a Dubai hospital, breathed his last at the age of 79.

 

Pakistan's dictator and former President Pervez Musharraf passed away on Sunday. He was 79 years old. Musharraf was ill for a long time. He was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dubai. Musharraf was the President of Pakistan from 20 June 2001 to 18 August 2008.

In May 2016, a Pakistani court charged him with treason. After this he left the country and went to Dubai, he was declared a fugitive.

Musharraf was hospitalized for several months. In June 2022, his family said on social media that he was suffering from a disease called amyloidosis. Because of this all his organs stopped working.

In amyloidosis, an abnormal protein called amyloid starts forming in the human body. It starts accumulating in the organs like heart, kidney, liver, nervous system, brain etc., due to which the tissues of these organs are not able to function properly.

Musharraf fought the war with India in 1965, hatched the Kargil conspiracy

At the age of 21, Musharraf joined the Pakistan Army as a junior officer after completing his college studies. He fought against India in 1965. The special thing is that Pakistan lost this war. Despite this, the Government of Pakistan awarded the medal to Musharraf.

Musharraf also played an important role in the 1971 war. Seeing this, the government promoted him many times. Pervez Musharraf became General in 1998. He hatched the Kargil conspiracy against India. Lost the war and also defamed Pakistan in the world. In his biography 'In the Line of Fire - A Memoir', General Musharraf wrote that he had vowed to capture Kargil, but could not do so because of Nawaz Sharif.

Musharraf wanted to meet former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but the then Manmohan Singh government was evasive, but Musharraf was determined to meet Vajpayee. This meeting took place on 18 April 2005. Musharraf had his convoy stopped at 6 Krishna Menon Marg on his way to Palam airport to return to Pakistan. He met Atal Bihari Vajpayee and said, 'Sir, if you were the Prime Minister, today the relationship between the two countries would have been different.'

The Nawaz Sharif who was made the army chief, he was thrown out of power

In 1998, the then Pak PM Nawaz Sharif trusted Pervez Musharraf and made him the chief of the Pakistan Army, but only a year later in 1999, General Musharraf overthrew Nawaz Sharif and became a dictator. Nawaz Sharif had to leave Pakistan along with his family as soon as he assumed power.

Had left Pakistan in 2016.

Musharraf was tried for treason in 2013 in connectionWhile in power, General Musharraf mistreated those demanding independence in Balochistan. Hundreds of people were murdered. This is the reason that after coming to power, Baloch women demanded America to declare General Musharraf as a global terrorist.

 with the declaration of emergency and then martial law on November 3, 2007, after which Nawaz Sharif's government banned his international visits in April 2013. Although Pervez Musharraf left Pakistan on the morning of 18 March 2016. The reason given for leaving the country was ill health.

Musharraf's family was quite prosperous in India before partition. His grandfather was a tax collector. His father was also a big officer in the British rule. Musharraf's mother Begum Zareen studied at the Aligarh Muslim University in the 1940s. The Musharraf family had a large Kothi in Old Delhi. Musharraf lived mostly here for four years after his birth.

Pervez Musharraf's mother Begum Zareen Musharraf visited Lucknow, Delhi and Aligarh Muslim University during her visit to India in 2005.