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With Aziz constitutionally completing his term and the suspension of the Chief Justice in 2007, Musharraf dramatically fell from the presidency in 2008 after voluntarily resigning in a facing threat of impeachment led by the people-elected opposition parties.

After departing, Musharraf currently in self-exile in London but has vowed to return for the next election.

In his absence in Pakistan, the country's courts issued arrests warrants for him and Aziz in the allege involvement in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and Akbar Bugti.

Due to his sudden rise and fall in the national politics, Western scholar Ian Kershaw of Sheffield University, described Musharraf as Pakistan-based Paul von Hindenburg.