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| Challenges to Musharraf rejected | Challenges to Musharraf rejected |
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| Pakistan's reformed Supreme Court has dismissed five out of six challenges to Pervez Musharraf's possible re-election as president. | Pakistan's reformed Supreme Court has dismissed five out of six challenges to Pervez Musharraf's possible re-election as president. |
| The remaining challenge will be heard later in the week. | The remaining challenge will be heard later in the week. |
| General Musharraf has promised to resign as army chief if the new court validates his presidency. | General Musharraf has promised to resign as army chief if the new court validates his presidency. |
| Correspondents say he is expected to win this case after purging the court under emergency powers he invoked on 3 November and appointing new judges. | Correspondents say he is expected to win this case after purging the court under emergency powers he invoked on 3 November and appointing new judges. |
| The judgements come a day after senior US envoy John Negroponte urged Gen Musharraf to lift emergency rule and free opponents ahead of elections due in January. | |
| Gen Musharraf has insisted the emergency can only be lifted once the security situation improves. | |
| Attorney General Malik Qayyum said that five petitions against Gen Musharraf's re-election have been dismissed. The one remaining petition will be heard on Thursday, he said. | |
| One of the petitioners challenging Gen Musharraf's re-election Makhdoom Amin Fahim of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) said earlier that had withdrawn his petition. | |
| It was not clear whether this appeal was among the five challenges that Mr Qayyum dismissed on Monday. | |
| Lack of confidence | |
| The legal challenge to Gen Musharraf's re-election is being heard by a new 10-member bench of the Supreme Court. Most judges on the previous bench refused to take an oath after the declaration of emergency rule. | |
| A separate six-member bench of judges will hear two petitions challenging the rule of emergency. | |
| The case came up before a nine-member bench last week, but three of the judges declined to sit on the bench. | |
| They said their recent judgements were quoted by Gen Musharraf in support of his decision to impose emergency. | |
| Gen Musharraf has promised to step down as army chief once the Supreme Court validates his new term as president. |