Pakistan:A key Pakistani opposition group has promised to try to undo amendments President Pervez Musharraf made to the constitution before lifting emergency rule on Saturday.
Raja Zafarul Haq, chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party, also said the six-week state of emergency "will leave a bitter legacy" long after Mr Musharraf leaves.
Mr Musharraf said yesterday he imposed the emergency on November 3rd in an attempt to save the country from destabilisation, and fight Islamic militancy.
But Mr Haq said he had used the emergency for "personal reasons" to stack the Supreme Court with "hand-picked" judges while it pondered the legality of his new term and to amend the constitution.
Mr Haq repeated claims that elections on January 8th for a new parliament will be "rigged" but said his party will use the new legislature to remove Mr Musharraf's amendments to the constitution.
On Friday Mr Musharraf removed a condition from the constitution which stated that civil servants - including army officers - had to wait two years after their retirement before running for elected office, Attorney General Malik Mohammed Qayyum said.
Mr Musharraf stepped down as army chief only last month. Removing the provision in question eliminated one of the grounds on which his October re-election, by a parliament stacked with his supporters, had been challenged.
- (AP)