[ad_1] Karachi: Pakistan’s former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday laid to rest with military honours in an army graveyard here in the presence of his relatives and several retired and serving military officers. The former president’s namaz-e-janaza (funeral prayers) were held at the Gulmohar Polo Ground inContinue Reading
[ad_1] Karachi: Pakistan’s former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf will be laid to rest on Tuesday in the Army Cantonment area here, officials said. Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War in 1999 and Pakistan’s last military ruler, died on Sunday in Dubai after a prolonged illness. The 79-year-old former presidentContinue Reading
[ad_1] Islamabad: The Pakistan Senate was sharply divided over the idea of offering prayers for late President Pervez Musharraf, as the treasury side strongly opposed it while PTI insisted on it and later praised him, and PPP lawmakers condemned the former leader for undermining the Constitution. Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani askedContinue Reading
[ad_1] United Nation chief United Nations: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is saddened to hear about the death of former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. “The Secretary-General conveys his deepest condolences to the family of the former President and the people of Pakistan,” he said on Sunday.Continue Reading
[ad_1] Islamabad: The US threatened to bomb Pakistan “back to the Stone Age” after the 9/11 terror attacks if then President General Pervez Musharraf did not cooperate with America’s war on Afghanistan. In his memoir ‘In the Line of Fire’, Musharraf wrote that the threat was delivered by the tough-talkingContinue Reading
[ad_1] New Delhi: India’s quest to bring fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim to justice has remained unfulfilled so far but in 2001, the then Union Home Minister L K Advani had put the uncomfortable question of handing over the global terrorist to visiting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. “Musharraf’s face suddenly turnedContinue Reading
[ad_1] PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said former president Pervez Musharraf was the only Pakistani General who genuinely tried to address the Kashmir issue. Musharraf, 79, passed away on Sunday at a Dubai hospital. “Deepest condolences. Perhaps the only Pakistani GeneralContinue Reading
[ad_1] “I have confronted death and defied it several times in the past because destiny and fate have always smiled on me,” Musharraf once wrote. “I only pray that I have more than the proverbial nine lives of a cat.” Musharraf’s family announced in June 2022 that he had beenContinue Reading
[ad_1] New Delhi: Pakistan’s former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the 1999 Kargil War, was born at a civic hospital in Delhi in undivided India. He received his birth certificate over six decades later during his visit here in 2005. Musharraf died in Dubai on Sunday atContinue Reading
[ad_1] Islamabad: Pakistan’s former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War, toppled the democratically-elected government in a bloodless military coup in 1999 and ruled the country for nine years during which he survived numerous assassination bids. Born in a middle-class family of Urdu-speaking Mohajir parents inContinue Reading