Pervez Musharraf

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, ...

Pakistan allowed him to leave the country on bail to Dubai in 2016 for medical treatment and he remained there after facing a later-overturned death sentence. Militant anger toward Musharraf increased in 2007 when he ordered a raid against the Red Mosque in downtown Islamabad. Sharif had ordered Musharraf's dismissal as the army chief flew home from a visit to Sri Lanka and denied his plane landing rights in Pakistan, even as it ran low on fuel. "She is always calm in the face of danger," he recounted. He then reneged on a promise to stand down as army chief by the end of 2004. "After 9/11, then President Musharraf made a strategic shift to abandon the Taliban and support the U.S. The partition saw hundreds of thousands of people killed in riots and fighting. That led to suspicion that still plagues the U.S. Bush at the Waldorf Astoria in New York to declare Pakistan's unwavering support to fight with the United States against "terrorism in all its forms wherever it exists." But it would be its border with Afghanistan that would soon draw the U.S.′ attention and dominate Musharraf's life a little under two years after he seized power. "I have confronted death and defied it several times in the past because destiny and fate have always smiled on me," Musharraf once wrote. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S.

Former military ruler of Pakistan died at a hospital in Dubai following a prolonged illness.

Musharraf became a darling for the US,” he said. However, the opening up of the media “also proved to be his downfall”, Hyder said. but the burden of his decisions have been carried by successive civilian leaders and the Pakistani military. the people of Pakistan, in particular, have carried the legacy of Musharraf’s decision-making that was completely unaccountable.” “There are supporters who will tell you that he did great services for this country,” he said. In October 1999, Sharif ordered Musharraf’s dismissal as the army chief flew home from a visit to Sri Lanka and denied his plane landing rights in Pakistan, even as it ran low on fuel.

The Delhi-born general telephoned then Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to offer condolences and sent relief, including medicines. "That broke the ice ...

In September, Musharraf met the new prime minister Manmohan Singh in New York on the sidelines of a UN summit. Singh wrote that at the meeting Musharraf expounded on how he wanted to solve the Kashmir problem and said there was "no terrorism from Pakistan". "One can talk about Musharraf's unrelenting hostility towards India, as evidenced by his policies that trained militants and diverted aid from the US, all in an effort to target India. "Such diplomatic meetings do not easily lend themselves to the style and fashion of military manoeuvres," he wrote. "The grandstanding fever had induced Musharraf into a great deal of unrestrained comment" at the meeting, Singh wrote in his memoirs. The stillborn plan - which included Pakistan giving up its claim to Indian-administered Kashmir if people from both regions had freedom of movement - was possibly the best shot at peace between the two neighbours. [memoir](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5282618.stm) that he found the "opportunity of a thaw" after the massive earthquake in India's Gujarat in early 2001. The Indians also had a different version of Musharraf's departure meeting with Vajpayee. This left Musharraf angry and exasperated and he left Agra in a huff. Some participants had recorded the off-the-record interaction, and the videos made their way to Indian news networks. The nuclear-armed rivals had fought two wars and a limited conflict over the disputed region of Kashmir. The [1999 October coup](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6960670.stm) in which Musharraf ousted Nawaz Sharif, the then-prime minister, also made the Indians wary.

The army general seized power in a coup in 1999 and ruled until 2008. After a legal saga, he was sentenced to death in absentia in 2019 for high treason.

Musharraf of violating the constitution and issued the death sentence. Fearing that the chief justice of the Supreme Court might invalidate the coup and his right to seek reelection, Gen. “Ironically, to become so, it needed me in uniform.” To critics who doubted his intentions, he declared, “I listen to my conscience and the needs of my country.” Musharraf outlined his grand dreams for Pakistan in an English-language memoir, “In the Line of Fire.” The book was a defensive version of history that justified his long rule as an unfinished mission to save his country. He participated in brief border conflicts in 1965 and 1971, the latter of which led to the breakup of Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh. Despite the crackdown, the protests gained momentum, and Gen. In 2003, he made a deal with Pakistan’s religious parties that gave him enough support to amend the constitution, allowing him to legalize the coup and decrees expanding his powers. He continued covert support for Islamist insurgents fighting Indian forces in the disputed border region of Kashmir, and his intelligence service maintained secret ties with pro-Taliban militants in the northwest. He took numerous measures to cement his grip on power, yet he insisted that they were for the good of the nation. He detested the elitism and cronyism of civilian politics, which he called “sham democracy,” but he was also a well-educated son of a diplomat, a moderate Muslim and an admirer of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the secular-leaning army officer who founded modern Turkey. Musharraf to choose between Pakistan’s alliance with the Afghan Taliban and Washington’s demand for cooperation in the war on terror. ally in a society with strong anti-American leanings; a career soldier who succumbed to political ambition and was forced from office after attempting to prolong his stay.

The former president, who seized power in a coup in 1999, survived numerous assassination attempts.

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 is called a military dictator, but there has never been a stronger democratic system than that under him... Though that sentencing was later reversed, he never returned to Pakistan. Musharraf died in hospital on Sunday morning. Musharraf's rule was characterised by extremes. And his career ultimately ended in disgrace and arrest, when he was sentenced to death in absentia for treason in 2019.

The late four-star general, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, led Pakistan for nine tumultuous years before resigning and leaving the country as a ...

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L'ancien président du Pakistan Pervez Musharraf est mort à l'âge de 79 ans, a annoncé l'armée dimanche. Arrivé au pouvoir à la faveur d'un coup d'État sans ...

En décembre 2019, un tribunal spécial avait condamné Pervez Musharraf à la peine de mort par contumace pour "haute trahison", pour avoir instauré l'état d'urgence en 2007. En août 2017, la justice pakistanaise l'a déclaré "fugitif" dans le procès du meurtre de Benazir Bhutto, la première femme de l'ère moderne à avoir dirigé un pays musulman. Après l'assassinat de la cheffe de l'opposition, Benazir Bhutto, en décembre 2007, il avait connu une déroute aux élections l'année suivante et s'était retrouvé isolé. Dans ce pays musulman, ce fumeur de cigares et buveur de whisky était initialement perçu comme un modéré, avant de prendre des mesures d'exception pour chercher à se maintenir au pouvoir. Pendant ses neuf années au pouvoir, le Pakistan a vu sa croissance économique décoller, sa classe moyenne se développer, les médias se libéraliser et l'armée jouer la carte de l'apaisement face à l'Inde rivale. L'ancien président du Pakistan Pervez Musharraf est mort à l'âge de 79 ans, a annoncé l'armée dimanche.

L'ancien président est mort à Dubaï, où il vivait en exil, à l'âge de 79 ans, a annoncé l'armée pakistanaise, dimanche.

Il avait ensuite entamé un luxueux exil volontaire entre Londres et Dubaï, financé en partie par de généreuses rétributions pour ses conférences dans le monde. Après l’assassinat de la cheffe de l’opposition, Benazir Bhutto, en décembre 2007, il avait connu une déroute aux élections l’année suivante et s’était trouvé isolé. Sa déclaration selon laquelle « la Constitution n’est qu’un morceau de papier à jeter à la poubelle » et son héritage n’ont cessé de diviser l’opinion, dans une nation qui a connu plusieurs coups d’Etat militaires depuis sa fondation, en 1947. Après l’invasion de l’Afghanistan par les Etats-Unis, dans la foulée des attentats du 11 septembre 2001, il avait aligné son pays sur les positions de Washington pour en faire un allié-clé des Etats-Unis dans leur « guerre contre le terrorisme ». Epaules droites, moustache grisonnante et inamovibles lunettes, cet admirateur de Napoléon et de Richard Nixon avait renversé le premier ministre Nawaz Sharif sans violence, endossant le titre de président de la République en 2001. « Qu’Allah bénisse l’âme du défunt et donne de la force à la famille endeuillée.

L'ex-président du Pakistan Pervez Musharraf est décédé à Dubaï, où il vivait, à l'âge de 79 ans des suites d'une...

[Après l'assassinat de la cheffe de l'opposition, Benazir Bhutto, en décembre 2007](https://www.rtbf.be/article/pakistan-hommage-massif-a-benazir-bhutto-5284543), il avait connu une déroute aux élections l'année suivante et s'était retrouvé isolé. Il est soupçonné d'avoir pris part à une vaste conspiration afin de tuer sa rivale avant des élections, ce qu'il a toujours nié. Cet ancien commando d'élite, né à Delhi le 11 août 1943, quatre ans avant la partition du Pakistan, était chef d'état-major des armées quand il a renversé en octobre 1999 le gouvernement civil de Nawaz Sharif, sans effusion de sang. [Napoléon](https://www.rtbf.be/article/bicentenaire-de-la-mort-de-napoleon-entre-ombre-et-lumiere-les-multiples-visages-de-bonaparte-10754980) et de Richard Nixon avait renversé le Premier ministre Nawaz Sharif sans violence, endossant le titre de président de la République en 2001. [Pervez Musharraf s'était alors présenté en rempart régional contre Al-Qaïda](https://www.rtbf.be/article/le-n02-d-al-qaida-a-ete-tue-au-pakistan-6657043), dont les dirigeants, alliés des talibans, avaient trouvé refuge dans les zones tribales frontalières de l'Afghanistan. "Qu'Allah bénisse l'âme du défunt et donne de la force à la famille endeuillée".

Épaules droites, moustache grisonnante et inamovibles lunettes, cet admirateur de Napoléon et de Richard Nixon avait renversé le Premier ministre Nawaz Sharif ...

Il avait ensuite débuté un luxueux exil volontaire entre Londres et Dubaï, financé en partie par de généreuses rétributions pour ses conférences à travers le monde. Dans ce pays musulman, ce fumeur de cigares et buveur de whisky était initialement perçu comme un modéré, avant de prendre des mesures d'exception pour chercher à se maintenir au pouvoir. Cet ancien commando d'élite, né à Delhi le 11 août 1943, quatre ans avant la partition du Pakistan, était chef d'état-major des armées quand il a renversé en octobre 1999 le gouvernement civil de Nawaz Sharif, sans effusion de sang. Pendant ses neuf années au pouvoir, le Pakistan a vu sa croissance économique décoller, sa classe moyenne se développer, les médias se libéraliser et l'armée jouer la carte de l'apaisement face à l'Inde rivale. Après l'invasion de l'Afghanistan par les Etats-Unis, dans la foulée des attentats du 11-Septembre 2001, il avait aligné son pays sur les positions de Washington. « Qu'Allah bénisse l'âme du défunt et donne de la force à la famille endeuillée ».

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan, has died, ...

Sharif had ordered Musharraf's dismissal as the army chief flew home from a visit to Sri Lanka and denied his plane landing rights in Pakistan, even as it ran low on fuel. The partition saw hundreds of thousands of people killed in riots and fighting. "She is always calm in the face of danger," he recounted. "After 9/11, then President Musharraf made a strategic shift to abandon the Taliban and support the U.S. 11, 1943, in New Delhi, India, Musharraf was the middle son of a diplomat. That led to suspicion that still plagues the U.S. It raced to safety on just its rims, Musharraf pulling a Glock pistol in case he needed to fight his way out. Bush at the Waldorf Astoria in New York to declare Pakistan's unwavering support to fight with the United States against "terrorism in all its forms wherever it exists." Musharraf said another American official threatened to bomb Pakistan "back into the Stone Age" if it chose the latter. But it would be its border with Afghanistan that would soon draw the U.S.'s attention and dominate Musharraf's life a little under two years after he seized power. "I have confronted death and defied it several times in the past because destiny and fate have always smiled on me," Musharraf once wrote. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S.

L'ex-président Pervez Musharraf est décédé à Dubaï à l'âge de 79 ans des suites d'une longue maladie, a annoncé l'armée locale.

En 2013, il a interrompu un luxueux exil volontaire pour tenter de revenir au pouvoir. Il a échappé à au moins trois tentatives d’assassinat de la part de cette organisation. «Je peux confirmer que le défunt général a rendu son dernier souffle à Dubaï ce matin...

Pervez Musharraf, the former four-star Pakistani army general who governed the South Asian nation for nearly a decade after coming to power in a 1999 ...

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The former army chief, who seized power in a coup, died at the age of 79 in Dubai after a prolonged illness.

then all the promises of liberalism, moderation, media freedoms went out the window”. He was accused of willfully failing to ensure her security. In 2010, he announced the formation of his own party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, and returned in 2013 to lead his group in the general elections that year. However, he said the freedoms granted to the media became a “double-edged sword” and played a strong role in Musharraf’s downfall, citing the negative coverage that followed after his removal of Chief Justice Chaudhry and “non-stop coverage of the lawyers’ movement”. [enforced disappearances](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/12/musharraf-must-face-accountability-for-all-crimes-2/) in Pakistan, a longstanding issue in the country, most notably in the western province of Balochistan and the former tribal areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. [the growth in violent attacks](https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2019/pakistans-tribal-areas-fata/index.html), and noted that Musharraf was under “tremendous pressure” from the US to take action. “I did so much for Pakistan … “His cooperation with the West also precipitated what was effectively a civil war in the country,” he added, referring to [9/11 attacks](/news/2021/9/8/20-years-after-9-11-did-the-us-win-its-war-on), Pakistan under Musharraf chose to ally with the US and supported the overthrowing of al-Qaeda allies, the Afghan Taliban. He joined the army in 1961 as a student and steadily rose up the ranks, culminating in his selection as army chief in 1998 by former three-time Prime Minister and head of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif. Born in Delhi in 1943, Musharraf moved to Karachi, Pakistan in 1947 with his family after the partition of India and Pakistan. [death after a prolonged illness](/news/2023/2/5/pakistan-former-president-pervez-musharraf-dies) was announced on Sunday, leaves behind a grim legacy – defined in large part by human rights abuses and the [US-led so-called “war on terror”](/news/2021/9/8/20-years-after-9-11-did-the-us-win-its-war-on).

Agé de 79 ans, Pervez Musharraf a succombé à une longue maladie à Dubaï.

Il est soupçonné d’avoir pris part à une vaste conspiration afin de tuer sa rivale avant des élections, ce qu’il a toujours nié. Après l’assassinat de la cheffe de l’opposition, Benazir Bhutto, en décembre 2007, il avait connu une déroute aux élections l’année suivante et s’était retrouvé isolé. Pendant ses neuf années au pouvoir, le Pakistan a vu sa croissance économique décoller, sa classe moyenne se développer, les médias se libéraliser et l’armée jouer la carte de l’apaisement face à l’Inde rivale.

Président du Pakistan de 2001 à 2008, le général Pervez Musharraf est décédé des suites d'une longue maladie à l'âge de 79 ans.

« Qu’Allah bénisse l’âme du défunt et donne de la force à la famille endeuillée. Le président pakistanais actuel Arif Alvi a prié « pour le repos éternel de l’âme du défunt et pour que soit donné à la famille endeuillée le courage de supporter cette perte », a indiqué son bureau dans un communiqué. Il avait échappé à au moins trois tentatives d’assassinat de la part de cette organisation.

After seizing power in a coup, Musharraf quickly became a vital ally to the United States as it hunted down al Qaeda's leaders after the 9/11 attacks.

Joint U.S.-Pakistani operations on Pakistani soil after 9/11 led to the arrests of dozens of leading al Qaeda figures, including ringleader Incensed by rumors, many of which proved later to be factual, Sharif tried to assert civilian control by firing Musharraf while he was flying back to Pakistan after his visit to Sri Lanka. efforts to destroy al Qaeda and remove the group's Taliban hosts from power in Afghanistan. military figures while he was head of his own country's armed forces, including Gens. The two countries have long been adversaries, and Musharraf and other Pakistani military commanders viewed Sharif's overtures to India's Hindu nationalist government with extreme suspicion, even hostility. While his cause of death wasn't immediately clear, he was hospitalized last year in Dubai with an incurable condition related to bone marrow cancer. Although Musharraf only really became known on the international stage after backing the U.S. (Shehbaz Sharif, the current prime minister, is Nawaz Sharif's brother.) Pervez Musharraf, whose role as Pakistan's military ruler at the time of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the U.S. A spokeswoman for the Pakistani Consulate in Dubai confirmed his death to The Associated Press. made him a household name, has died at the age of 79. He launched the takeover against the country's democratically elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, while aboard a flight returning from Sri Lanka.

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former president, died at age 79 in Dubai on Sunday after a long illness, according to a statement by the Pakistani ...

Bitterness and disappointment from Kargil in both Washington (for the dangerous escalation the intervention represented) and Pakistan (for the United States having refused to support Pakistan) led to a strategic falling-out between the United States and Pakistan. Just like his contrition, and his promises of uniting and reforming the nation. Rather, it was the Kargil War of 1999—a military entanglement that his supporters laud for its tactical robustness, yet whose strategic cost Pakistan continues to bear to this day. In the nearly decade and a half between his resignation in 2008 and his death, Musharraf showed little capacity for reflection or remorse. [Bush understandably praised Musharraf](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/the-presidents-news-conference-with-president-pervez-musharraf-pakistan-0) for helping to fight his war, calling Musharraf “a leader with great courage and vision.” But for Pakistan, the fruits of that relationship were ruinous. The tipping point probably came in 2006 when Nawab Akbar Bugti, a onetime government minister in Islamabad and former chief minister of the province, was killed in a standoff with the military. Musharraf came to be seen as a star officer and became a member of the elite Special Services Group of commandos in the Pakistan Army. In 1998, Musharraf was appointed head of the armed forces, only to be fired in October 1999 when he was traveling abroad. For the first few years after it was enacted, the ordinance and the new systems it created seemed to be improving those services across the country. In 2006, he became the first foreign head of state to appear on At age 18, Musharraf joined the Pakistan Military Academy, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1964. When Musharraf took charge after a military coup in October 1999, Pakistan was not dissimilar from its neighbors China and India—countries with large populations but little economic vitality at the time.

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, ...

Pakistan allowed him to leave the country on bail to Dubai in 2016 for medical treatment and he remained there after facing a later-overturned death sentence. A later United Nations report acknowledged the Pakistani Taliban was a main suspect in her slaying but warned that elements of Pakistan’s intelligence services may have been involved. Militant anger toward Musharraf increased in 2007 when he ordered a raid against the Red Mosque in downtown Islamabad. He then reneged on a promise to stand down as army chief by the end of 2004. Sharif had ordered Musharraf’s dismissal as the army chief flew home from a visit to Sri Lanka and denied his plane landing rights in Pakistan, even as it ran low on fuel. “After 9/11, then President Musharraf made a strategic shift to abandon the Taliban and support the U.S. He held flawed elections in late 2002 _ only after changing the constitution to give himself sweeping powers to sack the prime minister and parliament. The partition saw hundreds of thousands of people killed in riots and fighting. That led to suspicion that still plagues the U.S. Bush at the Waldorf Astoria in New York to declare Pakistan’s unwavering support to fight with the United States against “terrorism in all its forms wherever it exists.” But it would be its border with Afghanistan that would soon draw the U.S.?s attention and dominate Musharraf’s life a little under two years after he seized power. “I only pray that I have more than the proverbial nine lives of a cat.”

L'ex-président Pervez Musharraf est décédé à Dubaï à l'âge de 79 ans des suites d'une longue maladie, a annoncé l'armée locale.

En 2013, il a interrompu un luxueux exil volontaire pour tenter de revenir au pouvoir. Il a échappé à au moins trois tentatives d’assassinat de la part de cette organisation. «Je peux confirmer que le défunt général a rendu son dernier souffle à Dubaï ce matin... Mais sa condamnation a été annulée peu après. Le président pakistanais Arif Alvi a prié «pour le repos éternel de l’âme du défunt et pour que soit donné à la famille endeuillée le courage de supporter cette perte», a indiqué son bureau dans un communiqué. L’ex-président Pervez Musharraf, dernier dirigeant militaire du Pakistan dont il avait fait un allié des États-Unis dans la lutte contre Al-Qaïda, est décédé à Dubaï à l’âge de 79 ans des suites d’une longue maladie, a annoncé l’armée locale.

L'ex-président Pervez Musharraf, dernier dirigeant militaire du Pakistan dont il avait fait un allié des États-Unis dans la lutte contre Al-Qaïda, ...

« La chose la plus importante d’un pays est sa Constitution », a dit à l’AFP cet homme de 69 ans. « Qu’Allah bénisse l’âme du défunt et donne de la force à la famille endeuillée ». « Je peux confirmer que le défunt général a rendu son dernier souffle à Dubaï ce matin… « C’était un bon dirigeant. Il avait échappé à au moins trois tentatives d’assassinat de la part de cette organisation. Le président pakistanais Arif Alvi a prié « pour le repos éternel de l’âme du défunt et pour que soit donné à la famille endeuillée le courage de supporter cette perte », a indiqué son bureau dans un communiqué.

ISLAMABAD — Le général Pervez Musharraf, qui était devenu président du Pakistan après un coup d'État et dont le pays a contribué à la guerre américaine ...

Pervez Musharraf est entré dans l’armée pakistanaise à l’âge de 18 ans et y a fait carrière alors qu’Islamabad a combattu trois guerres contre l’Inde. Comme des millions d’autres musulmans, sa famille a fui vers l’ouest lorsque l’Inde principalement hindoue et le Pakistan islamique se sont séparés pendant l’indépendance de la Grande-Bretagne en 1947. Musharraf, un autre fonctionnaire américain a menacé de bombarder le Pakistan et de le ramener «à l’âge de pierre» s’il ne collaborait pas à la traque d’Oussama ben Laden, le cerveau de ces attaques aux États-Unis ayant provoqué la mort de près de 3000 personnes.

[1/7] Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf poses for a picture after an interview with Reuters in London January 16, 2011.

The state of emergency in 2007 aimed to quell protests triggered by a clampdown on the judiciary and the media. That same year, his government was criticised for not providing enough security ahead of the assasination by the Pakistani Taliban of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a political rival killed while on campaign for national elections. In a 2006 memoir, Musharraf said he "saved" Pakistan by joining the campaign against al Qaeda. Bush to pour money into the nuclear-armed nation's military, which remains one of the most powerful in South Asia. "I offer my condolences to the family of General Pervez Musharraf," tweeted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. ally in the campaign against al Qaeda following the militant group's Sept.

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, ...

[Canada](https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada) [Defence minister says Canada supports U.S. [World](https://www.ctvnews.ca/world) [China has reasons to keep cool after U.S. China may respond to the U.S. Pakistan allowed him to leave the country on bail to Dubai in 2016 for medical treatment and he remained there after facing a later-overturned death sentence. He held flawed elections in late 2002 -- only after changing the constitution to give himself sweeping powers to sack the prime minister and parliament. Sharif had ordered Musharraf's dismissal as the army chief flew home from a visit to Sri Lanka and denied his plane landing rights in Pakistan, even as it ran low on fuel. The partition saw hundreds of thousands of people killed in riots and fighting. "After 9/11, then President Musharraf made a strategic shift to abandon the Taliban and support the U.S. "She is always calm in the face of danger," he recounted. That led to suspicion that still plagues the U.S. Bush at the Waldorf Astoria in New York to declare Pakistan's unwavering support to fight with the United States against "terrorism in all its forms wherever it exists." Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S.

Arrivé au pouvoir après un coup d'État en 1999 et resté à la tête du Pakistan jusqu'en 2008, ce général quatre étoiles s'était autoproclamé président en juin ...

« La chose la plus importante d’un pays est sa Constitution », a dit à l’AFP cet homme de 69 ans. « Qu’Allah bénisse l’âme du défunt et donne de la force à la famille endeuillée ». « Je peux confirmer que le défunt général a rendu son dernier souffle à Dubaï ce matin… « C’était un bon dirigeant. Il avait échappé à au moins trois tentatives d’assassinat de la part de cette organisation. Le président pakistanais, Arif Alvi, a prié « pour le repos éternel de l’âme du défunt et pour que soit donné à la famille endeuillée le courage de supporter cette perte », a indiqué son bureau dans un communiqué.

Cet ancien commando des forces spéciales est devenu président lors de la dernière d'une série de coups d'État militaires qui a secoué le Pakistan depuis sa ...

Pervez Musharraf est entré dans l’armée pakistanaise à l’âge de 18 ans et y a fait carrière alors qu’Islamabad a combattu trois guerres contre l’Inde. Comme des millions d’autres musulmans, sa famille a fui vers l’ouest lorsque l’Inde principalement hindoue et le Pakistan islamique se sont séparés pendant l’indépendance de la Grande-Bretagne en 1947. Musharraf, un autre fonctionnaire américain a menacé de bombarder le Pakistan et de le ramener «à l’âge de pierre» s’il ne collaborait pas à la traque d’Oussama ben Laden, le cerveau de ces attaques aux États-Unis ayant provoqué la mort de près de 3000 personnes.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf addresses an audience during a change-of-command ceremony in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in 2007. Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty ...

Musharraf became a key ally of the United States following the 9/11 terror attacks, and he tried to become an indispensable figure in combating Islamic extremism. He continued to lead Pakistan as president until 2008. The former leader had been living in self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirates since 2016.

Updated February 5, 2023 at 5:00 AM ET. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pervez Musharraf, who was Pakistan's military ruler for nearly a decade, has died in Dubai ...

Pervez Musharraf was born in New Delhi, India, in 1943, the son of a diplomat. Despite the upheaval surrounding Musharraf's years in power, he has his defenders. While in exile, his former political party announced he was diagnosed with a rare disease, amyloidosis. He was later charged with treason for imposing emergency rule, and fled Pakistan in 2016, spending his final years in exile. Pakistan was also hoping that friendly relations with the Taliban would provide it with a buffer against its neighbor and rival, India. And the trigger for his downfall was when he sacked chief justice Pakistan's Supreme Court. Militants then seized control of a radical mosque in the heart of the capital – just a short distance from Pakistan's notoriously powerful military intelligence wing, known as the ISI. Musharraf was the one who began that policy." At the time, "there was a very good relationship that actually worked very well between the two intelligence agencies. Secretary of State Colin Powell told Musharraf that Pakistan would either be "with us or against us" while Musharraf alleged that another American official, whom he did not name, threatened to bomb Pakistan "back into the Stone Age" if it chose the latter, according to the Associated Press. Musharraf's time in power was shaped by the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pervez Musharraf, who was Pakistan's military ruler for nearly a decade, has died in Dubai after a long illness.

Here are some facts about the life and career of Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf, who died on Sunday:

In 2019, a Pakistani court sentenced him to death and deemed him a 'traitor' for subverting the country's constitution. A few months later, facing impeachment by lawmakers and the newly elected government, Musharraf announced he would resign as president and fled the country, living in London and Dubai. *In 2002, Musharraf was appointed president, a title he held in addition to army chief, after winning more than 90% of the vote in a controversial national referendum. *In 2001, he announced Pakistan's support for the U.S.-led campaign on al Qaeda militants following the Sept. Washington's so-called "war on terror" triggered the invasion of Afghanistan by international forces, who withdrew from the country in 2021. He seized power and toppled Sharif's government a year later, citing the deteriorating political and economic conditions in Pakistan