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Musharraf says to return to Pakistan for 2012 polls

Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf plans to return to his homeland next year in order to stand in elections, an Emirati newspaper quoted him as saying on Saturday.

"I am going to land in Lahore on the 23rd of March, 2012, if not earlier - but not later," Musharraf said in Dubai, according to the report in The National.

Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999, was Pakistan's president until he resigned under pressure.

He now
lives in self-imposed exile in London, but is wanted over the 2007 murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, accused of failing to provide her with enough security.