Musharraf risks it all to return to Pakistan To return home: Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf says he will definitely return home on Sunday to contest elections in May, even if his life is in danger. Mr Musharraf spoke in Dubai hours after a Pakistani court granted him protective bail in a string of legal cases, paving the way for his return from nearly five years in exile without the risk of immediate arrest. He is wanted in Pakistan over the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a gun and suicide attack after an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. Commentators say most of his power base has evaporated and he will only be able to secure at most a couple of seats for his All Pakistan Muslim League party. Two hundred per cent! I am travelling back on Sunday to Pakistan," he said.