Musharraf's return?

He announced his decision at London's National Liberal Club, an institution founded in the nineteenth century by William Gladstone and other stalwarts of Britain's parliamentary tradition.

The choice of venue was, of course, steeped in irony.  Musharraf did not uphold the Gladstonian tradition while he was in office for almost nine years, from October 1999 to August 2008.  Indeed, he admitted as much in his speech at the launch of his political party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, from a safe distance of thousands of miles from an increasingly turbulent Pakistan.