The former military ruler was buried in a muted funeral that was never officially announced. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KARACHI - Pakistan’s divisive former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was buried on Tuesday in a muted funeral that was never officially announced.
Prayers were held at the grounds of a military compound in Karachi in a funeral ceremony attended by around 10,000 people, mostly retired and serving military officers, an AFP reporter observed. The body was later transported to a nearby military graveyard where the coffin, draped in the national flag, was buried as hundreds of people watched surrounded by tight security.
But it also brought a huge influx of foreign aid, which bolstered the economy and helped modernise Pakistan. “Yet the late general’s mistakes were considerable, the biggest and most unforgivable being the derailing of the constitutional order.”Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif offered a simple condolence message on the death of Musharraf, who seized power after ousting his brother Nawaz Sharif.
“He plunged Pakistan into a war on terror, crushed the rights of people in Balochistan,” he told local television channel Geo News.
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