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Court to decide on Nov 18 whether Musharraf can leave Pakistan

Karachi: A Pakistani court will decide on November 18 whether former president Pervez Musharraf will be allowed to visit his ailing mother in Dubai, revoking a government ban on him travelling abroad.  Musharraf's legal team



However, he remains under guard at the farmhouse because of Taliban threats to his life.

Musharraf has also been granted bail in three other cases over the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation and the imposition of emergency in 2007.  

He was arrested soon after he returned to Pakistan in March after years of self-exile to contest the general election.

A court subsequently barred him from contesting polls for life.

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