Pervez Musharraf: Last Military Ruler of Pakistan and First Dictator to Be Sentenced to Death | In GFX

Pakistan's former military ruler General (retd.) Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War in 1999, died on Sunday in Dubai after a prolonged illness. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

The four-star general, who ruled Pakistan in a dictator-style and passed away on Sunday at the age of 79, was born in Delhi. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

During his reign in power, he engaged with on various crucial issues, including Jammu and Kashmir. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

Musharraf joined the Pakistan Military Academy in 1964. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

In 1999, Musharraf, the then Chief of Army Staff, leads a bloodless military coup, deposing the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif and installing himself as the head of the government in the capacity of Chief Executive. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

In 2001, Musharraf declares himself as the president of Pakistan after the incumbent, Mohammad Rafiq Tarar, resigns. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

Pakistan’s former dictator General Pervez Musharraf earned the ignominy of being the first military ruler to receive capital punishment in the country's history for subverting the Constitution in 2007. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

Musharraf, 79, who was suffering from amyloidosis, a rare disease caused by a build-up of an abnormal protein called amyloid in organs and tissues throughout the body, shifted to Dubai in 2016. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

In December 2019, a Pakistani court sentenced Musharaff to death in absentia in the high treason case. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

In nearly nine years of ruling the country, Musharraf presided over a stint of economic growth while dodging at least three Al-Qaeda assassination attempts. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

Musharraf was born in Old Delhi on August 11, 1943, and his family moved to the newly created Pakistan shortly after independence. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

As army chief, Musharraf orchestrated the brief, high-altitude Kargil conflict" in Kashmir that almost took Pakistan to war with its nuclear rival India. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

Musharraf won a five-year term as president in a 2002 referendum, but reneged on promises to quit as army chief until late 2007. (Credits: News18 Graphics)

Musharraf's most serious challenge emerged when he tried to sack the country's chief justice in March 2007, sparking nationwide protests and months of turmoil that led him to impose a state of emergency. (Credits: News18 Graphics)