{"id":24050,"date":"2013-03-18T07:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T12:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=24050"},"modified":"2013-03-18T07:57:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T12:57:31","slug":"interview-with-pervez-musharraf-as-he-returns-to-pakistan-after-4-years-to-contest-the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2013\/03\/interview-with-pervez-musharraf-as-he-returns-to-pakistan-after-4-years-to-contest-the-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Pervez Musharraf as he returns to Pakistan after 4 years to contest the elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Pervez Musharraf is going back to Pakistan after 4 years in exile. \u00a0He is confident that he can make political impact within a month of joining the campaign fray. \u00a0So, he is fighting the elections and will be going for next rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just before his return to Pakistan after 4 years in exile, former president Pervez Musharraf explains that he does not fear arrest or assassination; that he wants to run in the forthcoming elections and would like to rule his country again. He vows to force the United States to stop its use of drones to strike inside Pakistan and offers that Al Qaeda\u2019s leader Ayman Al-Zawahairi could be in Pakistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the interview with the France 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em\">Related articles from External Sources<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0;padding: 0;overflow: hidden\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/03\/17\/world\/asia\/pakistan-politics\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 0;width: 80px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/152970472_80_80.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/03\/17\/world\/asia\/pakistan-politics\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" 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