London, Jan 9: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has announced that he will return to Pakistan later this month.

“There are efforts to scare me, but these people don''t know that I''m not among the afraid,” Musharraf told a rally of about 8,000 supporters in the commercial centre Karachi via video link from Dubai.

Musharraf said he would return between January 27 and 30 and dismissed concern about his security, The Telegraph reports.

“I have fought wars. I am not scared of danger,” the paper quoted him, as saying.

The former dictator plans to return to lead his All Pakistan Muslim League''s campaign for an election due by 2013.

Musharraf resigned and went to live abroad after his allies lost a parliamentary election in 2008 and the new coalition government threatened him with impeachment.

A senior special prosecutor M Azhar Chaudhry recently said that Musharraf had already been declared a proclaimed offender in the Benazir Bhutto Assassination Case and that he would be arrested from the airport when he returns to Pakistan.

Musharraf is also facing criminal cases in the Balochistan High Court for allegedly ordering the killing of Baloch tribal chieftain Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in 2006.