Mr Sharif is a bitter enemy of General Musharraf; the general toppled him in a coup in 1999 and turfed him out of Pakistan, for a second time, last month.

• 谢里夫与穆沙拉夫结有宿怨，将军1999年的政变推翻了他并将他赶出国门，上个月又再次将他驱逐出境。