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| Musharraf 'will quit army soon' | Musharraf 'will quit army soon' |
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| Pakistan's attorney general says he expects President Pervez Musharraf to resign as army head before 1 December. | Pakistan's attorney general says he expects President Pervez Musharraf to resign as army head before 1 December. |
| Gen Musharraf has promised to resign his army post once the Supreme Court validates his next term as the country's president. | |
| The attorney general says the court should decide on the issue in the next few days. | The attorney general says the court should decide on the issue in the next few days. |
| Separately, ex-PM Benazir Bhutto says she is trying to bring opposition parties together against Gen Musharraf. | |
| Gen Musharraf has been meeting aides to finalise a new, caretaker government to take Pakistan into parliamentary elections due in January. | |
| The national assembly's term expires on Thursday. However, Gen Musharraf's term as president has been extended under his emergency rule. | |
| Correspondents say Gen Musharraf's new term is expected to be validated. He changed the make-up of the Supreme Court when he declared the emergency on 3 November, sacking several judges who had shown judicial independence. | |
| The reformed court is also hearing a challenge to the emergency rule. |