'Billionaire Musharraf has seven to ten offshore accounts in Dubai, London'

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Former Pakistan president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf has at least seven to ten offshore accounts in Dubai and London containing huge amounts of cash besides his property, a source has said.

The source told the News that Musharraf has also made huge saving investments abroad to earn large profits.

Musharraf has accumulated 1,600,000 dollars (145 million rupees) in just one Dubai based online trading service, the source added.

He has also admitted in his memoirs titled In the Line of Fire that he hails from a 'really humble background', adding that he pays at least half a million rupees as monthly salary to his personal staff.

Musharraf had earlier made his wealth public after taking over as Pakistan’s military dictator in which he revealed that he owned a few plots.

Musharraf’s spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry Advocate stressed that all his bank accounts are declared accounts, adding that a retired army chief gets pension benefits ranging from 400 to 500 million rupees.

Musharraf has claimed that he would return home by the end of January after more than three years of self-exile, piling more pressure on the civilian government.

"I am returning to Pakistan between January 27 to January 30," he told a crowd of around 7,000 gathered in the port city of Karachi through a video link from Dubai.

He also based himself in London since standing down.

"I'll land in Karachi despite all sorts of dangers to my life," he said, as the crowd chanted 'welcome, welcome'.

"I can sacrifice my life if need be for the people of Pakistan."

A Pakistani court in October issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz over the killing of a rebel leader in Baluchistan, Akbar Bugti, who died in a cave hideout during an army raid in August 2006.

Another court, in Rawalpindi in February last year, issued another warrant for his arrest over the assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a gun and suicide attack in 2007.

The same anti-terrorism court in August ordered the confiscation of Musharraf's property and the freezing of his bank accounts in Pakistan.