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Pakistan's former President Musharraf buried in Karachi

Army vehicles escort ambulances, carrying the body of Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf during his funeral in Karachi, Pakistan February 7, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Pakistani former President Pervez Musharraf, a key U.S. ally in the campaign against al Qaeda following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, was buried in his hometown of Karachi on Tuesday.

Musharraf, a former four-star general who seized power after a 1999 military coup, died on Sunday in hospital in Dubai, where he had been living in self-imposed exile since 2016, after suffering a rare organ disease. He was 79.

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