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 yesterday filed a petition in Sindh High Court pleading to strike off his name from the Interior Ministry's Exit Control List (ECL) which restrains him from leaving the country without permission of trial courts.
His chief lawyer Raza Kasuri said that the ex-military ruler wanted to visit Dubai to meet his his 95-year-old mother, who is seriously ill and unable to travel.
After being held for over six months at his sprawling farmhouse in Islamabad, 70-year-old Musharraf was released from house arrest last week when he got bail in a case related to the killing of cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi during a military operation against the radical Lal Masjid in 2007.
