Pervez Musharraf
Musharraf not to return home now
By Jamil Khan @ Gulf Today-Sharjah, January 28, 2012
DUBAI: Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf has postponed his return home as advised by the core committee of his party citing the current political situation there.
This was announced at a press conference in Dubai on Friday by Mohammed Ali Saif, who is the secretary-general of Musharraf’s All-Pakistan Muslim League Party (APML).
Musharraf had earlier announced that he would return to Pakistan around Jan.29, 2012.
In a press conference held at the APML headoffice in Dubai, the General Secretary Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif said.
“The government used the political situation against Musharraf and tried to divert public attention by repeatedly issuing threats that he would be arrested upon arrival. Musharraf decided on Friday that he would accept the recommendations of the executive committee of our party to delay his return,” Saif told reporters.
He added that no new date had yet been decided and that the “decision (of returning) would be discussed by the core committee of the party.”
According to agency reports, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani told CNN in Davos that Musharraf would “certainly” be arrested if he set foot back in Pakistan.
Supporters of Musharraf had repeatedly urged him to defer his return to Islamabad following threats of arrests.
Musharraf faces two Pakistani court warrants for his arrest in connection with the 2006 death of Akbar Bugti, a rebel leader in the southwest, and the 2007 assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto after her own homecoming.
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