Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
said he would not be running away from Pakistain.
"I am not running away from Pakistain. Rather, I will defend [myself] in all cases against me before a court of law," General (retired) Musharraf said to supporters gathered in Islamabad as he spoke via telephone.
"I have to go out of Pakistain only to see my ailing mother and will return back to you," he said to the gathering.
He said the cases against him are politically motivated and baseless.
He also lamented the current economic situation and claimed that when he resigned in 2008, the country had $18 billion reserves as compared to only $4 billion to $5billion today.
He condemned the Model Town incident and condoled with the families of those who had bit the dust.
Earlier, a convention of the All Pakistain Moslem League (APML) elected Musharraf as chairman of the party for the next term.