Exiled Former Pakistani President said Pakistan should consider having relations with Israel as he plans to return to Pakistan this month despite political arrest

Exiled Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Pakistan should consider having relations with Israel as he plans to return to Pakistan this month despite political arrest.

“There is nothing to lose by trying to get on Israel's good side," Musharraf said in an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Saturday. "Pakistan also needs to keep readjusting its diplomatic stand toward Israel based on the mere fact that it exists and is not going away," he added.

Musharraf, who resigned in 2008 in disgrace, has said he plans to return to Pakistan this month, despite possible arrest, in order to participate in a parliamentary election due by 2013.

On Sunday, he is scheduled to address a rally via video in Pakistan's biggest city and commercial hub, Karachi, sources in his recently formed All Pakistan Muslim League said.

Last year, a Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf over accusations that he failed to provide adequate security to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in December 2007. Musharraf was declared a fugitive of law after he failed to respond to a court summons.

Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali said on Saturday that Musharraf will be arrested in connection with the assassination of Bhutto if he returns to the country.