Sharif to return to Pakistan September 10

Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said Thursday he would return to his country on September 10, ending nearly seven years of exile in Saudi Arabia and Britain."On the 10th of September we will be landing at Islamabad," he told reporters at a London press conference, adding that he wanted to "launch a decisive battle" against embattled President Pervez Musharraf.His announcement came as Musharraf faced pressure from another ex-premier, Benazir Bhutto, to step down as army chief in a proposed power-sharing deal.The president, a key ally of the US in the "war on terror",has seen his support collapse in recent months.Protests over his suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry earlier this year have proved damaging, as has the government's inability to quell extremist violence.Sharif, who served as premier between 1990 and 1993 and again from 1997 to 1999, condemned the proposed Bhutto deal as "bad for the country" and "very unfortunate"."This man, Musharraf, is on his way out...no-one should try to rescue his sinking ship for personal motives,"he said.Sharif, 57, appointed Musharraf as Pakistan's army chief in 1998, but the pair fell out over a run-in with nuclear rival India in the disputed region of Kashmir.Sharif then tried to sack Musharraf because he suspected he was planning to overthrow him.But the army stepped in and Sharif left office in a bloodless coup before fleeing to Saudi Arabia in 2000, and later London.
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