Last Updated: February 07, 2023, 00:18 IST
Musharraf shall be buried in a Karachi graveyard, his household confirmed.
The members of the Senate, the higher House of Parliament, hurled allegations in opposition to each other on Monday for supporting dictatorial regimes and violators of the Constitution when the difficulty of prayers for Musharraf got here up
Sharp variations amongst political leaders got here to the fore in Pakistan’s Senate on Monday over the providing of prayers for the previous army ruler Pervez Musharraf, who died in Dubai following a protracted sickness.
Musharraf, the 79-year-old bespectacled moustachioed four-star basic of the Pakistan Army, died on the American Hospital in Dubai on Sunday, following a protracted sickness. He had been dwelling in self-exile within the UAE since 2016.
Pakistani Parliament follows a convention of providing Fateha (prayers) for the departed soul when a number one politician or character of the nation dies.
The members of the Senate, the higher House of Parliament, hurled allegations in opposition to each other on Monday for supporting dictatorial regimes and violators of the Constitution when the difficulty of prayers for Musharraf got here up.
The transfer of supplication was led by the chief of the opposition within the senate Senator Shehzad Wasim of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf occasion and supported by different members of his occasion.
When Senator Mushtaq Ahmad of rightwing Jamaat-i-Islami, who was about to guide a joint invocation for these killed within the earthquake in Turkey, was requested to additionally pray for Musharraf’s soul, he refused by saying that he would solely lead the invocation for the quake victims.
The refusal led to vociferous exchanges amongst lawmakers with some members reminding Senator Mushtaq that his occasion had additionally as soon as supported Musharraf.
Senator Maula Bakhash Chandio of the Pakistan Peoples Party additionally supported these in opposition to a joint prayer for the previous army strongman.
Later, the PTI lawmakers led by Senator Wasim, who was given a break in politics by Musharraf, provided a customary prayer whereas the treasury senators refused to affix them.
The break up within the higher House over providing a prayer for a useless particular person was uncommon and an apt reflection of Musharraf’s chequered legacy.
Musharraf served as president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He fled Pakistan in 2016, spending his closing years in exile within the UAE.
The architect of the 1999 Kargil War seized energy after a cold army coup in 1999 and remained in cost till 2008. His time in energy was formed by the 9/11 assaults and their aftermath.
Musharraf was accused of complicity within the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.
Musharraf’s years in energy have his defenders. The economic system grew throughout his management, whereas the nation was seen as strategically necessary.
Born in New Delhi in 1943, he migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and was the final army dictator to rule Pakistan.
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