Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
should he return as announced at the end of the month from three years of self-imposed exile, the interior minister said Wednesday.
"I assure this house that if he lands in Pakistain, he will be placed in durance vile because he is a PO (proclaimed offender)," Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
told the upper house of parliament.
"There are three registered cases against him. He has been named in these cases, so ultimately he will be placed in durance vile."
In a telephone address to a political rally in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on Jan 8, Musharraf promised to fly home between Jan 27-30 to contest general elections now widely expected later this year.
"I'll land in Bloody Karachi despite all sorts of dangers to my life," he said. "I can sacrifice my life if need be for the people of Pakistain."
Few in Pakistain are thought to want Musharraf to return, and the army has stopped short of publicly guaranteeing his safety against the arrest warrants.
A front man for Musharraf's All Pakistain Mohammedan League (APML) on Wednesday left the door open to the retired general changing his mind on returning.
"We are not afraid of arrests," party official Mohammad Ali Saif told AFP.
"We are in consultation with party leaders in this regard and Pervez Musharraf will take the final decision." The authorities in Bloody Karachi stood by the threat of arrest.
"We'll go by the order of the court," provincial home minister Manzoor Wassan told AFP in Bloody Karachi, capital of the southern province.
"We have made arrangements for him in prison," he added.