Former president Pervez Musharraf will "certainly" be arrested if he returns to Pakistan, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said Friday. "In fact there had been murder charges against him, and there had even been some very grave charges against him, and the Supreme Court had already given a verdict against him," Gilani told CNN from the Global Economic Forum in Davos. "Certainly when he'll come back, he has to face those charges and certainly be arrested," he said. Musharraf announced plans to return from exile in late January and to run in upcoming elections, but his party said he was reassessing those plans when Pakistan's elected government warned that if he returned, he faced arrest. Pakistan's upper house of Parliament passed a non-binding resolution earlier this week demanding Musharraf be arrested and tried for treason for unconstitutional acts during his regime, Sen. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan said. The charges against Musharraf are in connection with the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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