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pakistan s former president, general pervez musharraf, has died following a long illness. he was 79 years old. president musharraf seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1999, serving in office for seven years from 2001. and in 2019 he was sentenced to death in absentia, for treason charges for absconding the murder trial of one of his successors, bennazir bhuto. at the time of his death, he had been living in exile in dubai, receiving medical treatment. the bbc s gordon corera looks back on his life. 1999. and when troops stormed the national television headquarters to put pervez musharraf in power, the people of pakistan heard a familiar refrain. the nation needed another leader in uniform to save it from self serving politicians. in the past, our governments have ruled the people. it is time now for the governments to serve the people. pakistan had already been under army rule for more than half the time it had been independent. general musharraf portrayed hims ....
And spokesperson to musharraf who is now the leader of the pti, which is imran khan s party. fawad chaudhry has described musharaff as being a great person and said his ideology was always to keep pakistan first and we ve also recently heard from india s main opposition in the congress party saying that, once the implacable foe of india, he became a real force for peace in 2002 and 2007. we have also heard indirectly from bilawal bhutto who is the foreign minister here in pakistan, but he s also the son of benazir bhutto and today he posted pictures of benazir with a note saying she will live forever. this is obviously being seen as a reference to the fact that benazir herself before she died said if something were to happen to her, she labelled several people, including ....
And ammunition. this comes as the opposition is becoming more fragmented. just today, a top syrian rebel leader resigned in frustration. and meaning the united states and allies have no clear idea who takes over, if and when president assad falls. harris? leland, thank you. despite death threats from the taliban, the former pakistani president musharaff is back in his country and returned to pakistan after more than four years in exile. musharaff considering a possible political comeback. and musharaff telling a crowd of several thousand people who met him at the airport today that he has returned to save pakistan. afghan president hamid karzai getting ready to talk peace with the taliban. karzai will travel to qatar to discuss the peace process and how they would do it and the taliban opening an office there for the purpose of ....
This is one part of the pakistani government supposedly, we re cooperating wanother part of the pakistani department of the, the isi, is supporting terrorists who attack us, so it s pretty complicated, but it sounds like that s, yet, another reason we have to get afghanistan stable because we need a place to have bases so we can deal with the real problem in that region, which turns out to be pakistan. bret: charles? this is a complete shift in consensual thinking here. we went into the the war with afghanistan with pakistan our ally against al-qaeda and terrorists and taliban, under musharaff in the early years said to the the pakistanis, you ll be our allies, ultimatum by the bush administration or we re going to bomb you back into the the stone age. they were our allies. over the decade, those who were pro american have been weakened within pakistan and now, the paradox is that afghanistan is our base for keeping an eye on and attacking our enemies in ....