(20 Sep 2007)
1. Wide pan of exterior of Election Commission of Pakistan office
2. Close-up of sign reading: (English) Election Commission of Pakistan
3. People outside Election Commission office
4. Election Commission official, Khanwar Dilshad, holding statement announcing date of Presidential election
5. Cameramen
6. Wide of Dilshad surrounded by media
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khanwar Dilshad, Spokesperson for Election Commission of Pakistan:
"Chief election commissioner will receive the nomination papers on 27 September, and scrutiny will be conducted on 29 September, and the election will be held on 6 October."
8. Exterior of Election Commission of Pakistan office
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9. Protestors chanting anti-Musharraf slogans
10. Close-up of supporter
11. Head of Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussein Ahmed, walking and shaking hands
12. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Qazi Hussein Ahmed, Head of Jamaat-e-Islami:
"We inform everybody that through the forum of the APDM (All Parties Democratic Movement), we have already decided that on the day Pervez Musharraf's (presidential) nomination papers are accepted, with or without his uniform, all the parties belonging to the APDM are bound to resign from the national and provincial assemblies."
13. Security outside Supreme Court Islamabad
14. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Imran Khan, Opposition leader of Tehreek-I-Insaaf party:
"The moment General Musharraf's nomination papers are accepted, we will all resign from the national assembly."
15. Wide exterior of Pakistan Supreme Court in Islamabad
STORYLINE:
Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf will seek a new five-year term in a presidential election set for October 6, officials said on Thursday, even as opponents urged the courts to stop him from running and vowed to quit Parliament in protest.
After the US-allied leader signalled his plan to resign as army chief if re-elected, the Election Commission announced that the ballot by federal and provincial lawmakers would be held October 6.
The ruling coalition says it has enough votes to re-elect him, but opposition parties are threatening to boycott the vote to deny it legitimacy.
There is no sign they will field a candidate of their own.
Opponents, including exiled former Pakistan Premier Nawaz Sharif, whose government fell to Musharraf's coup eight years ago, and a six-member alliance of Islamist parties said their lawmakers would quit if the Election Commission accepts Musharraf's nomination papers.
"We inform everybody that through the forum of the APDM (All Parties Democratic Movement), we have already decided that on the day Pervez Musharraf's nomination papers are accepted, with or without his uniform, all the parties belonging to the APDM are bound to resign from the national and provincial assemblies," said Qazi Hussein Ahmed, head of Jamaat-e-Islami and of a six-party coalition of Islamist opposition parties.
"The moment General Musharraf's nomination papers are accepted, we will all resign from the national assembly," said Imran Khan, opposition leader and former cricket star.
Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, aims to stay on as president despite a sharp drop in his popularity and growing pressure for the restoration of democracy.
Government officials confirmed that Musharraf intended to run, and Information Minister Mohammed Ali Durrani said the announcement of the election date was "a good day in the history of Pakistan."
Musharraf's current term expires on November 15, and the main threat to Musharraf's plan to get re-elected appears to be its disputed legality.

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