Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf has died at a Dubai hospital, Indian news agencies have reported, citing Pakistan’s Geo News. He was 79.

• 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.
• When Nawaz Sharif was elected in 2013, he initiated high treason charges against Musharraf who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2019. His death sentence was eventually struck down by the Lahore high court which had declared the Sharif government’s actions unconstitutional.