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Summary Rehman Malik said APML chief Pervez Musharraf will be arrested as soon as he will land in Pakistan.
Pakistan will arrest former military ruler Pervez Musharraf if he returns home as announced at the end of January after three years in self-imposed exile, the interior minister said Wednesday.I assure this house that if he (Musharraf) lands in Pakistan, he will be arrested because he is a PO (proclaimed offender), Rehman Malik 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 arrested, Malik added.In a telephone address to a political rally in Pakistans largest city of Karachi on January 8, Musharraf promised to fly home between January 27-30 to contest general elections now widely expected later this year.Musharraf seized power in 1999 in Pakistans third military coup, becoming the countrys fourth military ruler.He was forced to step down as president in August 2008 after the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) formed a government following elections.In October, a court issued a warrant for his arrest over the killing of Akbar Bugti, a rebel leader in Pakistans southwestern province of Baluchistan who died in a cave hideout during an army raid in August 2006.Another court in February last year, issued a warrant for his arrest over the 2007 assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
