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.
Pervez Musharraf, the army general who seized power in Pakistan in 1999 and ruled the impoverished Muslim-majority nation for nine tumultuous years and later was sentenced to death in absentia for high treason stemming from his iron-fisted invocation of emergency powers, has died, the Associated Press reported Sunday, citing a spokeswoman for the Pakistani Consulate in Dubai. He was 79.
Gen. Musharraf made significant progress in turning around Pakistan’s debt-ridden economy. But many of his goals faced strong social, religious or bureaucratic resistance, or were sacrificed for political expedience. He backed off on plans to modernize seminaries, criminalize honor killings and modify laws that punished victims of rape.
Yet the general’s secular leanings and partnership with Washington conflicted with other agendas. 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.As a soldier, Gen. Musharraf was raised to fight Hindu-majority India.
In 2006, Gen. 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. “Pakistan is more democratic today than it ever was in the past,” he wrote. “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.
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