Pervez Musharraf’s legal team says the former leader has been granted bail and is free to leave Pakistan as early as Thursday.
He has been under house arrest in a villa on the outskirts of Islamabad and his fate has been the subject of intense speculation since he was detained this year.
“The jail staff present at his house will pack up and leave as soon as they get the orders from the lower court,” Ahmed Raza Kasuri, who heads the Musharraf defence team, told Reuters.
“Musharraf can fly to Dubai…once these legal formalities are completed.”
Musharraf was army chief when he took power in a 1999 coup and he later became president.
He stepped down after the party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto won an election in 2008.
He returned to Pakistan in March after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest a May 11 general election, but he was disqualified from standing because of pending court cases.
The latest bail was granted in connection with the death of a separatist leader in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.
Musharraf has already been granted bail in two other cases.
