Pervez Musharraf has admitted that plans for a triumphal return to Pakistan later this month could be delayed.
The former military ruler has not set foot in the country since he was forced from power more than three years ago but has promised to fight elections due within the next year.
This week the government of Pakistan repeated a long-standing threat to arrest him in connection with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
On Thursday he called a press conference in London in which he admitted his plans could be delayed.
"My party leaders in Pakistan are looking at the implications of my return and will give me the recommendation whether to return or whether to postpone," he said. "I have not had any recommendations yet."
It is less than two weeks since Mr Musharraf, 58, revealed he would fly from his base in Dubai to Pakistan between January 27 and 30.
The former military ruler has not set foot in the country since he was forced from power more than three years ago but has promised to fight elections due within the next year.
This week the government of Pakistan repeated a long-standing threat to arrest him in connection with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
On Thursday he called a press conference in London in which he admitted his plans could be delayed.
"My party leaders in Pakistan are looking at the implications of my return and will give me the recommendation whether to return or whether to postpone," he said. "I have not had any recommendations yet."
It is less than two weeks since Mr Musharraf, 58, revealed he would fly from his base in Dubai to Pakistan between January 27 and 30.
However, his supporters were defeated in elections in 2008 and he resigned his position of president months later amid mass protests and the threat of impeachment.
Two warrants have been issued for his arrest since then.
He is wanted for the killing of Akbar Bugti, a Baloch rebel, in August 2006.
And he is a suspect in the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister, for allegedly failing to provide adequate security on the day she was killed in a suicide attack.
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