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The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-azam), Awami National Party (ANP), Jamhoori Watan Party and the Pakistan Awami Party had gone to court against the order.
In a short order on their petitions, Chief Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan, heading a five-member bench, said, "For reasons to be recorded later, the bench has unanimously dismissed these petitions."
The petitioners had pleaded with the court that the condition would deprive a majority of the population of their fundamental right to contest elections.
The court ruling came a day after Musharraf announced that elections for parliamentary and provincial assemblies would be held on October 10, in keeping with a directive of the apex court.
Musharraf has also passed a decree banning two former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto from holding the office again.
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