Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
will be tossed in the clink in connection with the killing of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
if he returns home this month.
And next time there's a coup they'll hang Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali. He's either not bright enough to anticipate that or he's got his ticket to Dubai paid up and in his pocket, to be used the moment the tanks roll.
Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali says Musharraf would be tossed in the clink under a court order. Hours earlier, Musharraf told a Pak news channel that he would come back later this month to contest the next parliamentary elections, which could be held later this year.
Musharraf has been living in London and Dubai since 2008 when the government, led by Bhutto's party, forced him to resign.
Bhutto died in a gun and suicide kaboom in December 2007. Prosecutors allege Musharraf was part of a conspiracy to kill her. Musharraf has denied the charge.