This piece was originally published on Dec 17, 2019

Retired general Pervez Musharraf, the country’s former president, was sentenced to death for high treason by a special court on Tuesday.

After having called a state of emergency twice, once in 1999 and then again in 2007, the former military chief left the country in 2016 to seek medical treatment abroad. He promised to return to Pakistan in a few months but has been in self-imposed exile since.

Here, Dawn.com provides a brief pictorial overview from his time as army chief, followed by his nine-year-long rule and the years after he retired as the country’s chief executive.