Pakistani former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, facing a battery of criminal cases, must wait a fortnight to learn if he will be given permission to go abroad to visit his sick mother

Pakistani former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, facing a battery of criminal cases, must wait a fortnight to learn if he will be given permission to go abroad to visit his sick mother.
  
A court in Karachi on Wednesday adjourned a hearing on the retired general's application to have a travel ban lifted so he can see his elderly mother in Dubai.
  
Musharraf was indicted for treason last month over his imposition of emergency rule in 2007, in a case seen as a test of civilian authority in a country long dominated by the military. He also faces several murder cases and his name has been added to the official "exit control list" of people barred from leaving Pakistan.
  
The 70-year-old flew to Karachi at the weekend to undergo medical tests. A two-member bench of the Sindh High Court adjourned hearing Musharraf's application to be removed from the list until May 7, said an AFP reporter present in court. The court granted the adjournment after attorney general Salman Aslam sought time to file his comments on the issue.