Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's was arrested today, a day after the Islamabad High Court cancelled his bail in a case relating to the imposition of Emergency rule in 2007. Before he left Dubai to return to Pakistan last month, the former Pakistan President had arranged for pre-arrest bail in three cases that he faces in Pakistan. Here is why Pervez Musharraf needed bail as he made his way home to resurrect his political career after five years of self-exile.
Here are five legal wrangles that General Musharraf faces:
The Islamabad High Court ordered Mr Musharraf's arrest on Thursday for his decision in 2007 to detain senior judges, including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, when he declared a state of Emergency and suspended the Constitution.
The Pakistan Supreme Court is hearing a separate petition filed by lawyers seeking that he be tried for treason during his 2007 confrontation with the judges when he declared Emergency rule, a move which violated the Constitution.
Pakistan's Lahore High Court has cancelled Mr Musharraf's interim bail plea in Benazir Bhutto assassination case. He is accused of failing to provide adequate security for Ms Bhutto before she was assassinated in December 2007.
Mr Musharraf also faces accusations in connection with the death of a separatist leader in the southwestern province of Baluchistan in 2006.
On Tuesday, the High Court in the northwestern city of Peshawar disqualified Mr Musharraf in one of four Parliament seats that he wanted to contest in the forthcoming elections. He had already been disqualified in the other three.
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