A Pakistan Supreme Court bench that will rule on the legality of President Pervez Musharraf's overwhelming election victory was expanded yesterday, officials said.
The number of judges to hear challenges from next week on the validity of the controversial election was expanded to 11, officials said, possibly to reduce the risk of a tied decision.
"Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has enlarged the ten-member bench by adding one more judge," the court's spokesman Arshad Munir told AFP.