Karachi, Mar 24: Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf today ended nearly four years in self-exile defying threats of arrest and assassination by Taliban, saying that he returned home to “save” Pakistan and would face all “challenges” that lay ahead.
69-year-old Musharraf along with a delegation of around 150 people, including supporters from his All Pakistan Muslim League and journalists, landed at Jinnah International airport here by a chartered Emirates flight from Dubai.
Talking to reporters accompanying him from Dubai to Karachi, a smiling Musharraf said: “It is (a) very emotional (moment). I'm going back after four years.”
“There are a lot of challenges. There are security challenges, legal challenges, political challenges. But I will face them,” Musharraf clad in an off white shalwar-kameez said as he made his way out of the aircraft.
“Where are the people who said I will never return home. I have been receiving death threats and some people have been trying to scare me but I have returned home for the sake of my country and people,” an emotional Musharraf told his supporters.
The former commando-turned-politician said he would soon be launching a countrywide campaign of public rallies and media interaction.
