Pakistan's Sharif 'will return to challenge Musharraf'

An embittered former prime minister promised to return to Pakistan next month to fight what he called a battle against dictatorship and thwart President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s bid to extend his rule.

Nawaz Sharif’s comeback would set up a three-cornered fight for power, also involving rival ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, in a front-line state for the war against terrorism.