Musharraf tells exiled PMs to stay away from elections

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has repeated his opposition to the return of two exiled former prime ministers before parliamentary elections later this year.

Army general Musharraf, facing his worst political crisis since seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1999, has said his government would hold parliamentary elections later this year, but he wants exiled prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto to stay away from Pakistan in the run up to the polls.