Retired General Pervez Musharraf, Former Pakistan president, lost his battle with rare disease amyloidosis in a Dubai hospital on Sunday. He was 79.
AFP quoted a senior security official, who wished to remain anonymous, as saying: “I can confirm that the late General breathed his last in Dubai this morning … He is no more.”
Musharraf became the tenth president of the country after a military takeover of the government in 1999.
Pervez Musharraf dies in Dubai
He was chief executive of Pakistan from October 1999 to November 2002 and president from June 2001 to August 2008.
The former military ruler was hospitalised in June last year, and a statement on his official Twitter account read: “Going through a difficult stage where recovery is not possible and organs are malfunctioning. Pray for ease in his daily living.”
As per Johns Hopkins Medicine, amyloidosis is a rare disease characterised by a buildup of abnormal amyloid deposits in the body. Amyloid deposits can build up in the heart, brain, kidneys, spleen and other parts of the body.
A person may have amyloidosis in one organ or several. There is no cure for the disease and the treatment can only slow the progression and reduce the impact of symptoms.
In March 2014, Musharraf was indicted for suspending the Constitution in 2007 and a special court had handed Musharraf death sentence in the high treason case in November 2019.
In January 2020, Lahore High Court in Pakistan overturned the death sentence by declaring the process unconstitutional.
Musharraf came to Dubai in March 2016 to seek medical treatment and did not return to Pakistan after that.
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