By Robert Birsel
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have detained more than 2,000 supporters of exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his party said on Sunday, the eve of his planned return to challenge President Pervez Musharraf.
Sharif, ousted by army chief Musharraf in 1999, says he is determined to fly home from London on Monday despite an appeal from a Saudi official for him to stay away for the sake of Pakistani stability.
"I am, God willing, coming on the 10th of September and please don't try to stop me," he told reporters in London at a weekend press conference.
He said Musharraf thought might was right and believed "in the law of the jungle. One cannot expect anything else from him. So I am not scared, let me tell you".
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