Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar has said that the leadership of the Pakistan Army is of the opinion that ailing former president Pervez Musharraf should be allowed to return to Pakistan in light of his illness.
The military spokesperson gave this statement on Tuesday during an interview on a private TV channel. “In such a situation the institution and leadership’s stance is that Pervez Musharraf should return,” he said.
He revealed during the interview that while the military believed that the former military dictator should return to Pakistan, the final call on his return would be made by his family.
Praying for Musharraf's recovery, the DG ISPR said, “We have contacted his family. Once his family responds, we can make the required arrangements.”
Meanwhile, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, whose government had been overthrown by Musharraf in 1999, tweeted on Tuesday that he believed that Musharraf should be able to come back to Pakistan to be with his loved ones, and urged the government to facilitate his return.
https://twitter.com/NawazSharifMNS/status/1536759081746169856
Earlier, PML-N leader Khawaja Asif had said on Saturday that in view of Musharraf’s ill health, there should be no obstacle for him to return home. He had added that past events should not be allowed to be hindered in this regard.
A day before that, Musharraf’s family took to his social media to clarify that he had not been placed on ventilator, as some rumors had been suggesting.
Musharraf’s family first broke news of his illness in 2018, when they announced that he was suffering from a rare disease called amyloidosis.
The party’s Overseas President Afzaal Siddiqui had said that Musharraf’s condition had “weakened his nervous system”. At the time he was being treated in London.
The military spokesperson gave this statement on Tuesday during an interview on a private TV channel. “In such a situation the institution and leadership’s stance is that Pervez Musharraf should return,” he said.
He revealed during the interview that while the military believed that the former military dictator should return to Pakistan, the final call on his return would be made by his family.
Praying for Musharraf's recovery, the DG ISPR said, “We have contacted his family. Once his family responds, we can make the required arrangements.”
Meanwhile, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, whose government had been overthrown by Musharraf in 1999, tweeted on Tuesday that he believed that Musharraf should be able to come back to Pakistan to be with his loved ones, and urged the government to facilitate his return.
https://twitter.com/NawazSharifMNS/status/1536759081746169856
Earlier, PML-N leader Khawaja Asif had said on Saturday that in view of Musharraf’s ill health, there should be no obstacle for him to return home. He had added that past events should not be allowed to be hindered in this regard.
A day before that, Musharraf’s family took to his social media to clarify that he had not been placed on ventilator, as some rumors had been suggesting.
Musharraf’s family first broke news of his illness in 2018, when they announced that he was suffering from a rare disease called amyloidosis.
The party’s Overseas President Afzaal Siddiqui had said that Musharraf’s condition had “weakened his nervous system”. At the time he was being treated in London.