General Musharraf claimed in an interview that he was released, bailed and allowed to leave Pakistan after Ex- Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif pressurized the government to release him.
He made these revelations in talk show ‘On the Front’, when Kamran Shahid asked him how General Raheel helped you as the case was in courts he responded that ‘Raheel Sharif influenced the courts and government’.
Musharraf left Pakistan after his name was removed from the Exit Control List (ECL) on orders of Interior Minister. Supreme Court also removed the restriction on his movement after interior minister decision.
He was facing cases in Pakistan on the murder of Nawaz Akbar Bugti, Ex Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Lal Masjid cleric Ghazi Abdul Rasheed. He was also facing case against treason for implementing emergency rule and arresting judges in 2007.