President Pervez Musharraf announced Thursday that elections will be held before February 15 and confirmed his pledge to quit as army chief, state media said Thursday.
"General elections in the country would be held by February 15 next year," the official Associated Press of Pakistan quoted President Musharraf saying after chairing a meeting of the National Security Council.
State television also reported that President Musharraf renewed his pledge to quit as army chief before taking the oath for his second term in office, but did not give a date, state television said.
President Musharraf's re-election for another five-year term in office is still awaiting validation by the Supreme Court.
The report gave no further details but it came after the attorney general, Malik Mohammad Qayyum, told AFP earlier Thursday that the polls would be in February.
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