Pervaiz Musharaf announces return back to Pakistan
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Dubai: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday announced he is planning a political return to power.
“I am ready to lead the grand alliance of the political parties who are fed up with the politics of Pakistan Muslim League and Pakistan Peoples Party,” Musharraf told media yesterday in Dubai at the makeshift office of his All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).
The APML currently holds just one seat in the Pakistan’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, and has no seats in the higher house, the Senate. Musharraf was barred from contesting the last elections, held in 2013, due to ongoing court cases against him.
The 73-year-old strongman-in-exile came to Dubai on health grounds last year, and currently lives in the city.
Musharraf announced the political alliance after some leaders of minor religious and political parties met him at his residence in Dubai on Tuesday and asked him to lead what they termed as a “grand political alliance”. Some of the leaders who met him belong to minor parties including Awami League Sunni Ittehad Council, Muttahida Wahdadat-i-Muslimeen, Muslim League-Junejo and Pakistan Mazdoor Ittehad. APML secretary general Dr Mohammad was also present.
