
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations/ AFP
Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf was buried in his hometown of Karachi on Tuesday.
Musharraf, a former four-star normal who seized energy after a 1999 army coup, died on Sunday in hospital in Dubai, after struggling a uncommon organ illness. He was 79.
The funeral was held at Malir Cantonment’s Polo Ground, a day after a particular airplane transported his physique to his hometown. He was buried on the Army Graveyard in Karachi.
Musharraf was a controversial determine in Pakistan, which he dominated for a decade.
He was credited with attracting overseas funding to Pakistan, which noticed the strongest financial development in practically 30 years throughout his rule, and loved the help of the army and Pakistanis who backed his crackdown towards militant teams.
But Musharraf was additionally famend for his heavy-handed method to dissent, which included arresting rivals corresponding to present Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the imposing of an nearly six-week lengthy state of emergency by which he suspended the structure and censored the media.
After the 9/11 assaults, Musharraf joined what Washington referred to as its battle on terror, giving U.S. forces floor and air entry into landlocked Afghanistan to chase down Al Qaeda militants.
Musharraf was buried with army protocol at a funeral attended by serving and former military officers, together with former military chiefs Qamar Javed Bajwa and Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani, and members of the Karachi-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political celebration.