Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistan President, died after a prolonged illness on Sunday (February 5, 2023). Musharraf, the four-star general who ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1999, died aged 79 and breathed his last at a hospital in Dubai. He was in the United Arab Emirates city for medical treatment since 2016. Earlier last year, Musharraf was hospitalized due to a complication of his ailment Amyloidosis. "Going through a difficult stage where recovery is not possible and organs are malfunctioning. Pray for ease in his daily living," Musharraf's family had said in a tweet on June 10. Pervez Musharraf was born in New Delhi in 1943. He was reportedly four years old when his parents joined the mass exodus by Muslims to the newly created state of Pakistan. While his father served in the foreign ministry, his mother was a teacher.
