Islamabad (IANS) – General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former dictator, President, and military ruler, died in Dubai after being critically ill for about two years.

Pervez Musharraf, Former Military Ruler of Pakistan, Dies at 79 Mr. Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup in late 1999 but resigned under threat of impeachment in 2008. He drew fire for his ...

Former President retired General Pervez Musharraf has passed away in Dubai after a prolonged illness. President Dr Arif Alvi expressed deep grief and sorrow over the death of the former President.

General Pervez Musharraf met President Bill Clinton in March 2000, just months after seizing power in a military coup. Clinton’s brief visit followed the 1999 Kargil conflict and heightened ...

Constitutionalism — a lost sanctity The journey of the constitutional process in Pakistan has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride ...

Asif described the civil-military hybrid system as co-ownership of the power structure as he said: “This is a hybrid model. It’s not an ideal democratic government. So, this hybrid arrangement, I ...

US President Donald Trump is hosting Pakistan’s Army Chief General Asim Munir for a closed-door lunch at the White House, a rare overture that reveals a deeper geopolitical play unfolding behind ...

There have been precedents of Pakistan army chiefs, including Ayub Khan, Zia ul-Haq and Pervez Musharraf, receiving such invites. But they were holding the post of president as well.

With each discussion and example in Hamid’s book, it was hard not to return as the reader to a belief that Hamid himself seemed reluctant to embrace or accept: democracy is authoritarianism.

Prosecutors played the 55-minute audio recording made by Veronika Rodriguez of an alleged sexual assault on Jan. 11, 2023 for the jury.

The last Pakistan i military leader to meet a sitting U.S. President was General Pervez Musharraf in 2001, who did so as the nation's head of state during his tenure as a military dictator.

A 1947 British war memo shows why Pakistan, not India, suited post-imperial interests — creating a pliant state on Soviet, Iranian, and Arabian frontiers. In 2025, that logic still holds.