New Delhi:President Pervez Musharraf will file his nomination for a second term as President on September 27, according to a Pakistani government statement.
The presidential elections in Pakistan are scheduled to be held on October 6. A Pakistan newspaper has reported that Musharraf will launch his election campaign from Baluchistan on Monday.
Musharraf has pledged to shed his army uniform if re-elected as President - a move which would end eight years of military rule in Pakistan.
He is seeking re-election from the present National and provincial assemblies.
Earlier on Saturday, Pakistani police arrested more than a dozen opposition activists in a bid to scupper protests against Musharraf's plans for re-election on October 6, officials said.
Most of those arrested in the capital Islamabad belonged to the party led by exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, whose return to Pakistan was blocked earlier this month, and from parties in a conservative religious alliance.
"We have detained 14 people as a preventive measure. They have given calls for protests and we have fears that they may create disturbances in the coming days," Islamabad's top administrator, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, told Reuters.
Ali said he expected more arrests to be made on Sunday.
(With Reuters inputs)
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