MOSCOW, June 24 (RAPSI) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan has suspended the June 12 Sindh High Court ruling that allowed ex-President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who is on trial for several charges, to leave the country, the DAWN television network announced on Tuesday.

Pakistani authorities filed a lawsuit to reverse the June 14 Sindh court’s decision, fearing that Musharraf would not come back to stand trial for treason if allowed to leave.

Musharraf was put on the Interior Ministry’s Exit Control List in 2013.

The former dictator wants to go to Dubai to see his ailing 95-year-old mother. His attorneys also said that Musharraf, who was taken to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi on January 2, needs to go to the United States for medical treatment.

Musharraf has been charged with treason and four other crimes. Investigators claim that the general, who was Pakistani president from 2001 to 2008, committed treason in 2007 when he introduced a state of emergency and ordered the arrest of the supreme court judges. Under Pakistani law, treason is punishable by death or life imprisonment.

The treason case against Musharraf was initiated by the government in 2013.

During a March appearance in court, Musharraf pleaded not guilty to the five charges against him.