I'm not afraid of cowardly threats: Pervez Musharraf

DUBAI: Hours after Pakistani Taliban threatened to kill him, Pakistan's former military ruler and president Pervez Musharraf on Saturday appeared unfazed and said he will return home from self-exile to lead his party in the upcoming general election."I am going home as announced. I am not scared of anything - be it the death threat from terrorists or the arrest on arrival," Musharraf said in here after addressing his party supporters at a reception. Musharraf is scheduled to leave Dubai for Karachi on Sunday morning with his party supporters. Responding to a question on the Taliban's threat to dispatch suicide bombers and snipers to kill him on his arrival in Karachi, Musharraf told Gulf News, "Being an ex-commando with 40 years' service in the army, I can't be intimidated with these cowardly threats". Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said Musharraf will be the "main target" of the militants on his return.