Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf today said that he is not scared and announced that he will return home later this month to launch his political career despite facing threats of arrest in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. His announcement to return to Pakistan between January 27 to 30 came at an impressive rally organised by the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) near the Quaid-e-Azam Mazar in the city which was attended by hundreds of people who kept on imploring him to return to Pakistan. Winding up his video address to the crowd at the party's first big rally,Musharraf,currently living in Dubai and London on self-exile since April 2008,said he was not scared of anyone and would return to Karachi. Musharraf,68,said that he would contest the next general elections from Chitral in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. "I am living comfortably abroad and I have no problems but I am coming back for the Pakistani people because now is the time for change. People are fed up with the old faces," he said. "They are trying to scare me but I am not a scared person and I am coming back to face the situation," he told the cheering crowd that included women. The former President's announcement to return to Pakistan comes just hours after Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Islamabad that Musharraf should be arrested on his return as he was a proclaimed offender. Malik supported the statement of senior special prosecutor,Azhar Chaudhary made on Saturday that the former President will be arrested from the airport.
