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Expatriates came to the fore among leaders in the Senate on Monday to pay tribute to Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf died in Dubai on Sunday after a prolonged illness. General Musharraf (79) died on Sunday in a hospital in Dubai after a prolonged illness. There is a tradition in the Parliament of Pakistan that ‘Fatiha’ is read in the Parliament on the death of a well-known leader or person of the country. However, when it came to the Fatiha reading for Musharraf on Monday, members of the Senate, the upper house of parliament, accused each other of supporting a dictatorial regime that violates the constitution.
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Senator Shahnad Wasim, the Supreme Leader in the Senate and leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, proposed reading Fatiha, which was seconded by other members of his party. However, when Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Turkiye of the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami, who jointly recited Fatiha for the victims of the earthquake, asked him to read Fatiha for Musharraf as well, but he refused, saying that he was only in the earthquake. Fatiha will be recited for those killed.
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