According to sources, Pervez Musharraf is expected to return to Pakistan via air ambulance.
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Pakistani former military leader Pervez Musharraf, who has lived in Dubai since 2016, is expected to return to Pakistan soon.
According to sources, Musharraf is expected to return to Pakistan via air ambulance and to continue his treatment in the country after the ex-dictator’s health deteriorated last week, Geo News reported.
The sources also confirmed that Musharraf’s family is on board regarding the decision. His family has decided to move him to Pakistan.
The former president has been in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for medical treatment for the past six years.
Following news of Musharraf’s ill health, Pakistan’s Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), a key stakeholder in the coalition government, and the military leadership have said the former president must be brought to the country if he wants to return, it reported. GeoNews.
PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif last week asked the coalition government to facilitate Musharraf if he wants to return to Pakistan, adding that he has no “personal enmity or quarrel” with the ex-dictator.
“I have no personal enmity or quarrel with Pervez Musharraf. I don’t want anyone else to suffer the trauma I have to endure for my loved ones,” the three-time prime minister said on Twitter.
Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar also said the military leadership believes the former army chief should return to Pakistan.
“In such a situation, the position of the institution and the leadership is that Pervez Musharraf should return,” DG ISPR said during an interview with a private television channel.
Earlier, Musharraf expressed a desire to spend the “rest of his life” in his home country, local media reported.
The Express Tribune newspaper reported that the ailing former president wants to return to Pakistan as soon as possible.
Musharraf has been hospitalized for the past three weeks due to health-related complications.
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