Pak former military dictator Pervez Musharraf has died

Pakistan's military dictator & former president General(retd) Pervez Musharraf passed away on Sunday in a Dubai hospital, according to media reports.

Musharraf, 79, was suffering from a rare disease he had been undergoing treatment at American Hospital Dubai, Geo News reported.

He assumed the post of president after imposing martial law in the country in 1999 and served as the president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.

Musharraf was born on August 11, 1943 in Delhi. The former president`s family moved from New Delhi to Karachi in 1947.