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Ex President Gen Pervez Musharraf died at 79 in Dubai
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Ex President Gen Pervez Musharraf died at 79 in Dubai

Former Pakistan's president and chief of Army staff General Pervez Musharraf died in Dubai after a prolonged illness. He rules the country from 2001 to 2008. All the influential political personalities pay respect to a fallen soldier. Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf, a key U.S. ally in the campaign against al Qaeda following the militant group's Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, died in Dubai on Sunday after a prolonged illness. He was 79. Pervez Musharraf, a former four-star general who seized power after a 1999 military coup, died in a hospital in Dubai, where he was living in self-imposed exile since 2016. His body will be flown to Pakistan for burial on Monday. He had survived numerous assassination attempts and found himself on the front line of the struggle between mili...