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Sharp differences among political leaders came to the fore in Pakistan’s Senate on Monday over the offering of prayers for the former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who died in Dubai following a prolonged illness. Musharraf, the 79-year-old bespectacled moustachioed four-star general of the Pakistan Army, died at the American ...

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday cornered the Bharatiya Janata Party over deceased former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf. In a tweet, Tharoor questioned the saffron party over the Vajpayee government's ceasefire negotiations with the then military ruler in 2003 and the joint statement a year later.“Question to BJP leaders ...

With several Bharatiya Janata Party leaders accusing him of "eulogising" Pervez Musharraf in his condolence message, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday, February 6, 2023 asked if the former Pakistan president was anathema to all patriotic Indians, why did the then BJP-led government negotiate a ceasefire with him ...

With his death, after a protracted illness, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf leaves behind a Janus-faced legacy in relations with India which saw him presiding over some horrendous acts of terrorism but later, under pressure from the US which reportedly threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the stone age ...

A look at the top headlines of the day:Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf dies in Dubai: Last year, he was hospitalised for three weeks due to complications from a rare disease called amyloidosis.Nobody can warn anyone, says Kiren Rijiju after SC ultimatum to Centre on appointment of judges: A ...

General Pervez Musharraf, the controversial former Pakistani president who came to power in a bloodless coup and led his country during the early stages of Washington’s ‘war on terror’, passed away in Dubai at the age of 79 on Sunday.He had been suffering from amyloidosis, a rare incurable condition ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — 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, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 79.Musharraf, a former special forces commando, became president through the last of a ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan's former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf passed away after a protracted illness in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday. He was 79.Musharraf, who ruled the South Asian nation from 1999 to 2008, was under treatment at American Hospital in Dubai and died early ...

ISLAMABAD/ DUBAI — Pakistan’s former president Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999, has died aged 79.The former leader — who was president between 2001 and 2008 — died in Dubai after a long illness, a statement from the country’s army said.He had survived numerous ...

Former Pakistani president and military leader, Pervez Musharraf, passed away at the age of 79 in Dubai on Sunday, where he had been living in self-imposed exile. His family announced in June that Musharraf was hospitalized with amyloidosis, a rare disease involving the build-up of proteins in organs.Pakistan’s political ...