Islamabad, Sep 29 : The Pakistan's Supreme Court go ahead to President General Pervez Musharraf to contest the October 6 presidential polls in uniform, has lead to howls of protest from the Opposition parties.

Terming the verdict as disappointing, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has announced that it would file a review petition against the apex court’s decision in Musharraf’s dual office case.

“We will fight (against the decision) in the Parliament, the Election Commission and the SC,” MMA Senator Khurshid Ahmed told reporters.

Lahore, Sept 28 : Bookmakers in Pakistan have declared General Pervez Musharraf the favourite candidate to win the forthcoming presidential election.

Karachi bookmakers have kept the odds of five to one on Musharraf, while odds of one to 40 on two other candidates Amin Fahim and Wajeehuddin Ahmad.

The Daily Times quoted a Geo TV report as saying that after cricket, bookmakers have now received bets worth billions of rupees on who would be the next President and what crucial decisions would be taken in the near future.

Lahore, Sep 28 : Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Benazir Bhutto has said that she would accept General Pervez Musharraf as President if the Supreme Court passed a verdict in his favour, and he is re-elected.

Bhutto said that it is for the people of Pakistan to determine who would be President and Prime Minister of the country.

"I will accept the verdict of the court, and I will accept the verdict of the people of Pakistan," she told CNN.

Washington, Sept 28 : Pakistan and Russia are the two most vulnerable countries to nuclear theft, according to a new report by a prestigious Washington think-tank.

The report by the group called Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) says that of the states that have either nuclear weapons or significant amounts of high-quality weapons-usable materials, only Pakistan fares as poorly as Russia in Transparency International’s ratings of corruption levels.

Islamabad, Sept.27 : Former Supreme Court judge, Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed, today filed his nomination for the October 6 presidential poll.

Justice Ahmed, 68, was the only Supreme Court judge who refused to swear allegiance to Musharraf after his 1999 coup. He was asked to resign from his post. Had he been a part of the Supreme Court bench, he would have become the country's Chief Justice.