Pak under pressure to let Musharraf leave country

Pakistan government is under pressure to let former military ruler Pervez Musharraf embroiled in legal tangles to leave the country, according to a close aide of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

‘There is pressure on the government to allow General Musharraf to leave Pakistan,’ Raja Zafarul Haq, Leader of the House in Senate, told the media in Rawalpindi.          

Haq, who is a senior leader of Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), told Express News television that the government was under pressure on the issue but did not name the forces or individuals applying that pressure.         

Analysts have said the powerful military is not happy with the treason case against 70-year-old Musharraf. 

A three-member tribunal is trying the former military ruler for imposing emergency in the country in 2007 which is considered as a treason under the Constitution and is punishable with death or life term imprisonment.