ISLAMABAD, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Election Commission of Pakistan has notified the election of General Pervez Musharraf as President of Pakistan, according to a report by the official Radio Pakistan on Saturday.

    Election Commission Secretary Kanwar Dilshad said that the notification had been sent to the cabinet secretary for official announcement.

    According to the official APP news agency, the 10-member full court of the Supreme Court Friday validated the Oct. 6 election of Musharraf by the national and the provincial assemblies.

    "In our opinion, President General Pervez Musharraf...was qualified for and did not suffer from any disqualification, under the constitution or/and the law for presidential election 2007," the court said in its order.

    The court vacated the interim stay order by which a bench of the Supreme Court on Oct. 5 had restrained the election commission from issuing final notification of the results of the election of the returned candidate to the office of the president.

    "The chief election commissioner of Pakistan and the federal government are directed to take all the necessary steps by Dec. 1,2007, for final announcement of the result of the presidential election and issuance of public notification in accordance with the constitution and the law," it said.

    As already undertaken in writing on Sept. 18 before the Supreme Court by Musharraf's law advisor Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada and Attorney General Malik Muhammad Qayyum, Musharraf "shall relinquish the office of the Chief of Army Staff before taking oath of office of the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, for the second term", the full court ruled.

    Musharraf gained a vast majority in the presidential election on Oct. 6. However, the Supreme Court on Oct. 5 barred the election commission from issuing an official notification of the result before a final verdict was given on petitions challenging Musharraf's presidential candidacy.