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Ex-Pakistan President Sentenced to Death

VOA News

   A special court in Pakistan has found former military President Pervez
   Musharraf guilty of high treason and sentenced him to death.

   The high-profile treason case dates back to 2007 when Musharraf,
   president and military chief of Pakistan at the time, imposed a brief
   emergency rule and suspended the constitution in a bid to cling to
   power in the face of growing public demands for him to step down.

   The former Pakistani leader, who also faces several other legal
   challenges stemming from his days in power, rejects the charges as
   politically motivated.He has been living in Dubai since 2016, when he
   traveled to the country for medical reasons.

   Musharraftook power in a bloodless military coup in 1999 by ousting the
   government ofthen Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif whom he later exiled to
   Saudi Arabia along with his family members.

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