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Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a death sentence for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for abrogating the country’s constitution, almost a year after the strongman’s death. The powerful military has seized power in Pakistan at least four times, but Musharraf’s death sentence was the first time a general was punished for a coup. Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999 and ruled Pakistan for nine years, was handed a death sentence by a special tribunal in 2019 after finding him guilty of treason. But the sentence was overturned by a high court weeks later and an…

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