[Pak Daily Times] Doctors will decide whether former military ruler Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
must go abroad for treatment "after suffering a heart problem" on the way to his treason trial, his lawyer said Friday.
The 70-year-old was taken ill and rushed to a military hospital on Thursday as he was being transported under heavy guard to hear treason charges against him at a special tribunal in Islamabad. He spent a second day in the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi on Friday and his lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri told news hounds he was in a stable condition in the intensive care unit. The sudden health scare was met with scepticism from some observers and feverish media speculation that his departure from Pakistain on medical grounds could be imminent.
He is the first Mighty Pak Army chief to go on trial and there have been rumours for months that he would be spirited out of the country before facing the courts, to head off a potentially destabilising clash between the government and the military. Musharraf, who faces a number of criminal cases dating back to his 1999-2008 rule, is under a travel ban and ministers have repeatedly said they will not lift it.