Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf passed away in a Dubai hospital at the age of 79.
The Former President was undergoing treatment for an ailment at American Hospital Dubai.
Musharraf was one excellent performer at the Royal College of Defense Studies in Britain where he studied for a year. The thesis he submitted was titled as ‘Impact of Arm race in the Indo- Pak subcontinent.’ The teacher who attended to his thesis described Musharraf as a valuable asset to the RCDS. His course mates therein included Ali Kuli Khan from the Pakistan army and Ashok Mehta from the Indian. His first battlefield was the 1965 Indo-Pak war. After which he served in the elite SSG from 1966 up to 1972. He was the company commander of an SSG commando battalion during the 1971 war with India. He later continued to excel in several military assignments and rapidly gained promotions within.
