Decision to lift ban seen as sign the government has conceded defeat to the will of the all-powerful militaryPakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf slipped out of the country in the early hours of Friday morning in a move widely interpreted as a sign the government has conceded defeat at the hands of an all-powerful military establishment.
The former army chief,who took power in a 1999 coup and was facing charges of treason, was finally removed from the country’s “exit control list” on Thursday after nearly three years of being banned from international travel.
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Source: theguardian.com