Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif promised to return home on September 10, 2007. Nawaz Sharif has been exiled for years, and now he has risks of arrest on returning to his land.

At a news conference, Sharif said that it is his duty to challenge what he called the illegitimate rule of military learder President Pervez Musharraf.

“I shall return to Islamabad on September 10. I will be landing in Islamabad, the city I left from," said Sharif.

“Inshallah” (god willing) it will be on the tenth of September we will be landing at Islamabad and from there onwards we will be going to Lahore by road back to our city where I belong to, but since Islamabad is the capital and that is a place from where we left our country eight years ago and we want to go back to the same city and launch a decisive battle against the dictatorship in Pakistan,” he revealed in London.

Sharif has been in exile since 2000, wants to restore the supermacy of the rule of law and rid his people of dictatorship forever.

“This man Musharraf is on his way out. No one should try to rescue him and no one should try to rescue his sinking ship for personal motives," said Sharif, in a unclear reference to former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, who said on August 29 that she had almost sealed a power-sharing deal with General Pervez Musharraf. Under the deal, Musharraf will give up his uniform.

Sharif also spoke his concerns over the prospective deal between Musharraf and Bhutto: “If she gets into any deal with Mr. Musharraf I think that it will be a misfortune, it will be bad for the country and it will against the spirit of this document and also she will be going back on her word. So we expect that she doesn’t go into any deal or cut any deal with Musharraf because that will be too bad for the country,” he said.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled last week that Sharif, a two-time prime minister, should be allowed to return. But according to intelligence officials Musharraf wants Sharif to delay his return till after the presidential polls falling between mid-Septmeber and mid-October this year.