Correct Answer :   5th February 2023

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 (5th February 2023) after a prolonged illness.

* Pervez Musharraf, who was in Dubai since March 2016, was undergoing treatment for amyloidosis. It is a rare disease that occurs when an abnormal protein, called amyloid, builds up in your organs and interferes with their normal function.

* Pervez Musharraf was the tenth president of the South Asian nation after the successful military coup in 1999 and 7th top general from 1998 to 2007.

* Musharraf, 78, was facing treason charges for suspending the Constitution in 2007 over the imposition of an extra-constitutional emergency, a punishable offence for which he was indicted in 2014.

* Musharraf was born on August 11, 1943, in Delhi and completed his early education at St Patrick’s High School in Karachi.

* The former president pursued higher education at Forman Christian College in Lahore.

* A retired General, Musharraf was a veteran of the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pakistan wars.

* He assumed power after engineering a successful military takeover of the Pakistani government in 1999.

* In 2002, he won a general election which was widely reported as almost certainly to have been rigged.

* Notably for India, Musharraf made some strides towards solving the Kashmir question and move towards peace. In 2006, he told  that Pakistan could be willing to give up its claim on Kashmir if India agreed to a self-government plan.

* Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008, was declared a fugitive in the Benazir Bhutto murder case and Red Mosque cleric killing case.


Born : 11 August 1943, Old Delhi, Delhi

Died : 5 February 2023, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Source : Reuters