Pakistan: Army wants former President Pervez Musharraf’s return to Pakistan – Times of India

Islamabad: Pakistan The military has said that the country’s top military leaders believe that their former army chief and former president Pervez MusharrafThose whose health condition is stated to be critical should return to Pakistan.
Last week, rumors of Musharraf’s death surfaced on social media, but soon his family denied reports that he was suffering from amyloidosis, a rare disease characterized by an abnormal build-up of amyloid in organs and tissues. It is caused by the formation of proteins. Body.
Army spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar told a private TV station on Tuesday night, in such a situation, the stand of the organization (army) and (its) leadership is that Pervez Musharraf should come back. He said that the final decision on his return would be taken by his family.
“We have contacted his family. Once his family answers, we can make necessary arrangements,” said the spokesperson. A few days before Iftikhar’s statement, Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif had said that he believed that no obstacle should be created if the former dictator wants to come back to Pakistan.
Following the statement of the military spokesman, former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif asked the coalition government led by his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif For the convenience of the former dictator if he wants to return to Pakistan, saying that he has no “personal enmity or quarrel” with him.
“I have no personal enmity or quarrel with Pervez Musharraf. I don’t want anyone else to suffer the trauma that my loved ones have to endure,” the former PM posted on Twitter, adding that he was praying for his (Musharraf) health.
78-year-old Musharraf had gone abroad United Arab Emirates due to medical treatment in 2016, but he has not returned to Pakistan since then. In 2014, he was convicted for the November 2007 suspension of the country’s constitution. The former military dictator was sentenced to death by a special court in December 2019 in a high treason case.