ISLAMABAD/DUBAI—Pakistan’s former president, Pervez Musharraf, a key U.S. ally in the campaign against al-Qaeda following the terrorist group’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, died in Dubai on Feb. 5 after a prolonged illness. He was 79.
Musharraf, a former four-star general who seized power after a 1999 military coup, died at a hospital in Dubai, where he was living in self-imposed exile since 2016. His body will be flown to Pakistan for burial on Feb. 6, Geo News reported.
“I offer my condolences to the family of General Pervez Musharraf,” Prime Minister S …