Pervez Musharraf Death: Former Pakistan Army Chief and President Pervez Musharraf died on Sunday in a hospital in Dubai after a prolonged illness. Musharraf’s relatives told that he died today due to amyloidosis. He was admitted to the hospital for a few weeks.
Last year, on June 10, his family issued a statement on Twitter. The family had said that the former army chief is in a condition where his health is deteriorating and recovery is not possible. However, he had said that he is not on ventilator. The family had appealed to the people to pray.
Pervez Musharraf was the tenth President of the South Asian nation (Pakistan) after the successful military coup in 1999. He served as the 10th CJCSC from 1998 to 2001 and as the 7th Top General from 1998 to 2007. Please tell that in 1961, at the age of 18, Musharraf entered the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul.
Indo-Pakistani conflict (1965–1971)
Musharraf’s first battlefield experience was with an artillery regiment during the fighting for the Khemkaran sector in the Second Kashmir War. Musharraf also participated in the Lahore and Sialkot battle fields during the conflict. He received the Imtiyazi Sanad Medal for gallantry. Immediately after the end of the 1965 war, Musharraf was inducted into the elite Special Services Group. He served in SSG from 1966 to 1972.
Musharraf’s big contribution in provoking the Kargil war
The then Army Chief Musharraf was a key strategist behind the Kargil War. In 1999, from March to May, he ordered covert infiltration in Kargil district. After this, as soon as India came to know about this, the war started between the two countries. In this war, Pakistan had to suffer and Musharraf also suffered a lot.
Pakistan President Nawaz Sharif had said that the operation was done without his knowledge. However, the details of the briefing he received from the army before and after the Kargil operation became public. According to reports, prior to the operation, between January and March, Sharif was briefed about the operation in three separate meetings.