Former President Pervez Musharraf Friday has reached Dubai after he left Pakistan from Karahi airport amidst high security. Musharraf reached Dubai via Emirates flight EK-611. He was greeted by All Pakistan Muslim League leaders (APML) at Dubai s airport. The former President left the country early Friday after the Supreme Court lifted a three-year ban on him travelling abroad.
Musharraf boarded an Emirates flight bound for Dubai that departed from Karachi airport at 3.55 am (2255 GMT). “He was the last person to be embarked on the plane and then the gate was closed,” an airport source said, adding the retired general appeared “relaxed”.
Lawyers for the former president, who is facing multiple charges including treason and murder over the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, have said he needs urgent spinal treatment not available in Pakistan.
“I am going abroad for treatment but will return to face the cases against me,” a party spokesman in Karachi quoted him as saying. “I am a commando. I love my motherland.”
“Six to eight weeks are required for the treatment and then he would go back home,” said Dr Amjad Malik, a spokesman for Musharraf s All Pakistan Muslim League party in Dubai.
Musharraf was banned from leaving Pakistan in March 2013 after he returned to the country on an ill-fated mission to contest elections.
The former ruler was barred from taking part in the polls and instead faces a barrage of legal cases.
In January, Musharraf was acquitted over the 2006 killing of a Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.
But four cases against him remain — one accusing him of treason for imposing emergency rule, as well as those alleging the unlawful dismissal of judges, the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and a deadly raid on Islamabad Red Mosque.
Last June, the Sindh High Court lifted Musharraf s travel ban, but the federal government, headed by his long-time rival Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif, appealed the verdict.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Sindh High Court decision and ordered the government to allow Musharraf to travel.
“Today, lawyers of General Musharraf filed a proper application and in the light of the Supreme Court decision, the government has allowed him to go abroad for medical treatment,” Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan confirmed Thursday.
Musharraf’s lawyers have provided guarantees he will return to Pakistan in six weeks and pledged he will appear in court for several ongoing cases against him, Khan said.
Musharraf ousted Sharif from power in 1999 in a bloodless coup and ruled Pakistan until democracy was restored in 2008.
Musharraf has been under house arrest in Karachi while the cases have ground through the legal system.
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