Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf's body will be repatriated to Pakistan today from the United Arab Emirates, where he passed away on Sunday at the age of 79 after a prolonged illness.
Reports say the family of the former chief of army staff (COAS) and the president had requested the state to provide a special plane to move the body from Dubai. The request has been granted by the government.
His funeral is expected on Tuesday (tomorrow).
Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan for most of the 2000s before stepping down in early 2008, died on Sunday at 79.
His son and daughter arrived in Dubai soon after his death. wife Sehba Musharraf was already in Dubai.
A military funeral for a former COAS is not unusual, but many social media users have demanded that the former dictator’s coffin should not be draped in the Green Flag since he had abrogated the constitution twice first in 1999 and then in 2007.
