(31 Mar 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf coming to address news conference
2. Mid of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistani President
"The court has granted me bail for 14 days and 21 days in different cases. The court has put a restriction that I cannot go out of country without permission from the court during this period. I am here to to run in the elections, so where can I go. So I am meeting the members of my party and I am not thinking of getting a ticket and leave the country. This is not my thinking. As far as the cases are concerned, we will face the cases in the court, be it Lal Masjid, Benazir Bhutto or Akbar Bugti case. When the trial starts, everything will come into public knowledge."
4. Cameramen
5. Mid of reporters
6. Various shots of Musharraf leaving press conference
STORYLINE
Former Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf - who is hoping to make a political comeback despite Taliban death threats and looming arrest warrants - faced questions from reporters on Sunday, a week after he returned to Pakistan after nine years in exile.
He said courts had granted him bail "for 14 days and 21 days in different cases."
"The court has put a restriction that I cannot go out of country without permission from the court during this period," he said, adding that he had no intention of doing so because he returned to "to run in the elections."
He said he would meet with members of his party, the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).
Musharraf is seeking to rebuild his image, hoping to capitalise on an electorate frustrated with five years of rising inflation, rolling blackouts and security problems.
But he has been implicated in the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, as well as the killing of Akbar Bugti, a Baluch nationalist leader who died in August 2006 after a standoff with the Pakistani military.
In another case, he's accused of illegally removing a number of judges, including the chief justice of the supreme court.
His return to Pakistan was made easier when a court in Sindh province where Karachi is located granted him pre-emptive bail, which essentially meant he could not be arrested immediately upon landing.
But there is no guarantee that he won't be arrested in the future.


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