{"id":52370,"date":"2023-02-05T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T07:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/05\/former-pakistan-president-pervez-musharraf-dies-in-dubai-after-long-illness"},"modified":"2023-02-05T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T10:26:12","slug":"former-pakistan-president-pervez-musharraf-dies-in-dubai-after-long-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52370","title":{"rendered":"Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf dies after long illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military ruler, one of country\u2019s most divisive leaders after seizing power in coup, has died in exile in Dubai<\/p>\n<p>Pervez Musharraf, the former army general and president of Pakistan who ruled for almost a decade after seizing power in a coup in 1999, has died in Dubai after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani military confirmed his death in a statement, expressing \u201cheartfelt condolences on the sad demise of Gen Pervez Musharraf, former president, CJCSC and chief of army staff\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/05\/former-pakistan-president-pervez-musharraf-dies-in-dubai-after-long-illness\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military ruler, one of country\u2019s most divisive leaders after seizing power in coup, has died in exile in DubaiPervez Musharraf, the former army general and president of Pakistan who ruled for almost a decade after seizing power in a coup in 1999, has d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1000,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-pervez-musharraf","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52378,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52370\/revisions\/52378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}