ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has claimed that ex-army chief Gen Raheel Sharif helped him leave the country.
‘Well he (Raheel Sharif) did help me and I am absolutely clear and grateful. I have been his boss and I have been the army chief before him… he helped out, because the cases are politicised, they put me on the ECL, they turned it into a political issue,’ he claimed during a TV programme.
Musharraf, who left for Dubai in March after the interior ministry removed his name from the exit control list (ECL), is facing treason charges for imposing emergency rule in November 2007, arresting judges and limiting their powers.
His name was kept on the Exit Control List for more than 20 months. The retired general is also nominated in murder cases of Benazir Bhutto, Nawab Akbar Bugti and Ghazi Abdul Rasheed.
Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan had said in March that Musharraf had committed to facing all cases against him in court and had ‘promised to return in four to six weeks’. NNI
