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| Musharraf to quit army 'in days' | Musharraf to quit army 'in days' |
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| President Pervez Musharraf will be sworn in for another term of office on Thursday, his spokesman Rashid Qureshi has told the BBC. | |
| The spokesman told the BBC Urdu service that Gen Musharraf would resign as head of the army before taking the presidential oath of office. | The spokesman told the BBC Urdu service that Gen Musharraf would resign as head of the army before taking the presidential oath of office. |
| President Musharraf has been under intense international and domestic pressure to give up his military role. | President Musharraf has been under intense international and domestic pressure to give up his military role. |
| He seized power in a coup in 1999, deposing a civilian government. | He seized power in a coup in 1999, deposing a civilian government. |
| Options open | |
| Gen Musharraf's spokesman did not clarify whether he would resign from his army post on Thursday or before that. | |
| Nawaz Sharif returned from exile on Sunday | |
| The man he toppled in the coup, Nawaz Sharif, returned to Pakistan after years of exile on Sunday. | |
| Mr Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, both former prime ministers, have now filed nomination papers to contest parliamentary elections due in January. | |
| But both are holding onto the option of boycotting the options if they deem that they will not be free and fair. | |
| Gen Musharraf imposed emergency rule on 3 November in order, he said, to rein in the judiciary and deal with a growing threat from Islamist militants. | |
| Thousands of political opponents were arrested, TV and radio news was banned and judges seen to be a threat to the government were sacked. |