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- Former President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf (79, Retd), passed away recently.
- He was the tenth president of Pakistan after a successful bloodless military coup in 1999.
- He served as the 10th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of Pakistan from 1998 to 2001 and the 7th top general from 1998 to 2007.
- He was known as the architect of the Kargil war, the man who ordered his soldiers to enter India to cut off Leh from Srinagar.
- It was as President that Pervez Musharraf came to India in July 2001.
- Gen. Musharraf had left for Dubai in March 2016 for medical treatment and never returned to Pakistan.
- In December 2019, a special court in Pakistani sentenced General Pervez Musharraf in absentia to death for suspending Pakistan's constitution in 2007.
- Mr Musharraf challenged the order and in January 2020.
- The Lahore High Court annulled the death sentence and held the earlier trial to be unconstitutional.
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