Faced with political turmoil at home, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf [Images] will miss the United Nations General Assembly's annual session for the first time since he deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and took over the reins of the country in 1999.

In an updated list of speakers for the general debate issued by the world body on Friday showed that Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri will address the 192-member Assembly. Musharraf, if he had come, would have addressed the Assembly immediately after American President George W Bush [Images] on September 25.

But now Kasuri is expected to address the Assembly on September 26. Pakistani sources cited compulsions of elections as the reason for the General's decision against coming to New York to attend the session.

The government had earlier announced that the Presidential polls, in which Musharraf is seeking re-election for a five-year term, would take place between September 15 and October 15.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is now slated to address the Assembly on October 1. India was listed to speak on September 28. But the change was made as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] is not coming for the session.

Under the Assembly procedure, heads of States get top spots followed by heads of Governments and Foreign Ministers.