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What a strongman's prison looks like

AFP, Islamabad
At the end of a quiet lane snaking through the well-heeled Islamabad suburb of Chak Shahzad, a terracottacoloured house modelled on a Moroccan courtyard home stands amid spreading orchards and wheatfields.
It would be a restful, bucolic scene, were it not for the army of300 policemen, paramilitaries, soldiers, snipers and anti-terrorist officers on hand to guard the owner -- the former leader of the world's only Islamic nuclear power, Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan's one-time military strongman is under house arrest, but enjoying detention de luxe: writing his memoirs, working out each day and eating meals cooked by his personal chef.
The former general, who ruled from 1999-2008 after deposing an elected government in a bloodless coup, returned to Pakistan in March after years of self-imposed exile.
He came vowing to stand in the general election and "save" Pakistan, but his arrival restarted a barrage of legal cases related to his time in power, including murder charges over the death of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.
The Chak Shahzad house was declared a "sub-jail" by a court in April, and he has lived there in detention since then, as the cases against him grind through Pakistan's sclerotic judicial system.
As the man who allied his country
with Washington in its "war on terror" after the 9/11 attacks, Musharraf is in danger from Islamist militants who have vowed to kill him.
So his prison and refuge is the house he commissioned back in 2006, at the height of his power, which was still under construction when he was forced from power and into exile.
"The house was 95 percent finished before he left, but the first time he spent a night in the house was after he came back this year," said Hammad Husain, the architect.
Inside the villa, Husain said, the walls tell the story of Musharrafs career - photos that form a Who's Who of world leaders, the swords and guns one might expect of a military
man, and a piece of fabric from the cloth of the Kaaba in Mecca, a holy relic given by the Saudi king.
Aides say Musharraf, 70, is keeping his body in shape with 75-minute workouts every morning and his mind sharp with reading and writing.
The former president lives with his bodyguards, assistants and personal cook in part of the 1,100 square metre (12,000 square foot) house, run under the auspices of the tough Adyala prison in Rawalpindi.
There have been rumours for months of a possible deal to let Musharraf go back into exile, to avoid a clash between the government and the all-powerful army, which is keen to avoid seeing one of its own tried by civilians.