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Sat 10 Oct 2007Court ruling leads to fresh confusion over Musharraf's political futurePAKISTAN:Pakistan's supreme court kept Gen Pervez Musharraf on tenterhooks yesterday by allowing him to contest today's presidential election but denying him a widely expected victory.The court ruled that no winner of the vote by Pakistan's parliamentarians could be declared until after a challenge to Gen Musharraf's candidacy has been heard later this month, keeping alive the possibility that he could be disqualified.