Pakistan’s former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf is critically ill and has been hospitalised in Dubai since last month, his family said on Friday. They asked for prayers for Musharraf’s health while denying local media reports back home that he is on a ventilator. Musharraf has been living in the United Arab Emirates since 2016, when he was allowed to leave Pakistan on bail to seek medical treatment abroad. A death sentence against him, handed down in absentia in 2020 in a treason case related to the state of emergency that Musharraf imposed in 2007 while in power, was later overturned. …

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