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Summary PM Gilani said that he has no objection to being sent to prison if Supreme Court desires.
In an interview with CNNPrime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday saidthat he has no objection to being sent to prison if the Supreme Court desires in contempt of court case.He said that Pakistans former leader Pervez Musharraf will certainly be arrested if he returns to Pakistan.In fact there had been murder charges against him, and there had even been some very grave charges against him, and the Supreme Court had already given a verdict against him, Gilani told CNN from the Global Economic Forum in Davos.Certainly when hell come back, he has to face those charges and certainly be arrested, he said.Musharraf announced plans to return from exile in late January and to run in upcoming elections, but his party said he was reassessing those plans when Pakistans elected government warned that if he returned, he faced arrest.Pakistans upper house of Parliament passed a non-binding resolution earlier this week demanding Musharraf be arrested and tried for treason for unconstitutional acts during his regime, Sen. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan said.The charges against Musharraf are in connection with the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.A UN report in 2010 accused Musharrafs government of failing to protect Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan from her own exile to run for office.Musharraf, who has been living in London and Dubai since resigning in 2008, has denied the allegations, arguing that Bhutto had police protection and took unnecessary risks, but a Pakistani court still issued a warrant for his arrest.
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