ISLAMABAD/DUBAI - Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf, a key US ally in the campaign against al Qaeda following the militant group's Sept 11, 2001 attacks, died in Dubai on Sunday (Feb 6) after a prolonged illness. He was 79. Musharraf, a former four-star general who seized power after a 1999 military coup, died in hospital in Dubai, where he was...
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf poses for a picture after an interview with Reuters in London on Jan 16, 2011.ISLAMABAD/DUBAI - Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf, a key US ally in the campaign against al Qaeda following the militant group's Sept 11, 2001 attacks, died in Dubai on Sunday after a prolonged illness. He was 79.
Musharraf was suffering from a rare organ disease called amyloidosis, and was admitted to hospital last year after he became critically ill, his family said. "He failed to build on his early popularity to effect sustainable economic and political reforms and became a captive of military power and vested interests," said Shuja Nawaz, author of several books on Pakistan's military and a fellow at U.S. think-tank Atlantic Council.
Musharraf joined what Washington called its "war on terror", giving US forces ground and air access into landlocked Afghanistan to chase down al Qaeda militants. In a 2006 memoir, Musharraf said he "saved" Pakistan by joining the campaign against al Qaeda. He also successfully lobbied the administration of former US President George W. Bush to pour money into the nuclear-armed nation's military, which remains one of the most powerful in South Asia.
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