Pakistan Army chief Bajwa meets Musharraf in Dubai

Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa not too long ago visited the ailing former president and armed forces chief Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf in Dubai, the media reported on Saturday.

Gen Bajwa, accompanied by high physicians of the Pakistan Army, spent a while with Gen Musharraf and his household at their condo in Dubai whereas the military medical doctors examined the 78-year-old former army ruler, The Express Tribune newspaper quoted a supply, who was additionally current throughout the assembly, as saying. The former army ruler was in 2018 within the UAE identified with the life-threatening well being situation known as Amyloidosis.

Amyloidosis is a gaggle of uncommon and critical situations that’s brought on by a build-up of an irregular protein known as amyloid in organs and tissues all through the physique, based on the UK’s National Health Service. If left untreated, these protein deposits can result in organ failure.

According to the sources near the previous army ruler’s household, “Gen Musharraf and his family greeted the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) with great delight”. However, there was no official phrase on the COAS go to to Dubai from the army’s media wing.

The household of Musharraf, who has been residing in self-exile in Dubai since 2016, has but not made up their thoughts to fly him again to Pakistan.
Earlier this week, the household dominated out the chance citing lack of correct therapy in Pakistan.

“An uninterrupted supply and administration of experimental drug Daratumumab needed alongside associated treatment of Amyloidosis are currently not available in Pakistan,” the household wrote on Musharraf’s Twitter deal with on June 21.

“It’s not easy to take a call on Musharraf’s return from Dubai where he is undergoing treatment.” The household additionally revealed that that they had been assured that the Pakistani authorities and the army institution would facilitate the septuagenarian common’s clean return.

“Communications have been received from official and unofficial channels that [Musharraf’s] return home will be facilitated. We sincerely appreciate these overtures since Pakistan is home,” they mentioned.

On June 14, The Express Tribune reported that the exiled common, who seized energy in a 1999 coup and was president from 2001 to 2008, had expressed a want to spend the remainder of his life in Pakistan. His shut associates subsequently approached the “powerful quarters” and authorities officers to make a proper request.

The improvement got here on the heels of a Twitter assertion from the household during which they harassed that Musharraf’s “recovery is not possible”.
The developments triggered a media guessing recreation on the army’s attainable response, which got here by way of shortly.

The chief army spokesperson mentioned the “military brass believes Musharraf should be brought back to Pakistan”.

“Musharraf’s family has been contacted for this purpose,” the military spokesman mentioned. “If the family gives its consent, then arrangements would be made to bring him back.” Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf had toppled the federal government of then prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 1998 in a cold coup after which despatched the Sharif household into exile on account of a deal brokered by a pleasant nation.

However, Sharif in a tweet mentioned that he was not against Musharraf’s coming again to Pakistan.

“I’ve no personal feud with Pervez Musharraf. I don’t want anyone to go through the same emotional shock and trauma with regard to their loved-ones as I had to endure,” he mentioned in a cryptic reference to his tormentor.

Sharif, who was sentenced to seven years in jail in a corruption case in December 2018, has been residing in London since November 2019 for the therapy of some undiagnosed sickness.