Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf registered Thursday to run in presidential elections due on October 6, Pakistani media reported. Musharraf's presidential term ends on November 15. His nomination was filed by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will stay on as army chief if he is not re-elected, a government lawyer said Tuesday, as the Supreme Court prepared for a ruling that could decide the fate of his bid for another presidential term.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has dismissed two challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's bid for reelection, but the justices are still considering several others. Pakistani lawyers have also nominated a former Supreme Court justice to run in the October presidential election as a symbolic challenge to Mr. Musharraf.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, facing growing calls to chart a return to Democracy, indicated Wednesday he will quit as army chief if he is re-elected. Eight years after seizing power in a military coup, Mr. Musharaff is due to face re-election before his term ends in mid-November.

Islamist political parties have added their voice to charges that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's bid for re-election is unconstitutional. The movement against Mr. Musharraf's candidacy was also joined Thursday by terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, who called for a holy war against the president.

President Pervez Musharraf’s military's siege of a militant mosque stronghold this year makes him an infidel, Osama bin Laden said, urging Pakistanis to rebel against their President.

Pervez Musharraf, the President of Pakistan, will step down as army chief if he wins the presidential election again, government officials said Tuesday.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has begun hearing challenges to President Pervez Musharraf bid for re-election. Opposition groups say Mr. Musharraf - who assumed power in a 1999 bloodless military coup - cannot legally be president while continuing as head of the Army.

Nawaz Sharif, the exiled former Pakistani prime minister, has long promised to return to Pakistan and – he hopes – to power. Now, his return looks imminent. Sharif told the press on August 29 that he would be back in Pakistan within two weeks, and he is expected today to announce details of his return.

Self-exiled former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto said that President Pervez Musharraf has agreed to shed his uniform in a power-sharing deal with her while there was no official confirmation on this from the President's side.

In yet another setback for embattled President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif can return home after seven years in exile in Saudi Arabia.

Self-exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said that she is close to clinching a deal to back Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf if he lifts the ban on her serving a third term as prime minister and drops criminal charges against her.