Pakistan's emergency not yet over

President Pervez Musharraf's lifting of emergency rule over Pakistan and restoration of the constitution is insufficient to put the country on the path to democracy, say civil-rights activists. For one thing, there is the unprecedented situation created by most of the country's higher judiciary refusing to take an oath under Musharraf's Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) of November 3 that imposed the state of emergency. Anti-press laws and restrictions on the electronic media remain. And last, but not least, is Musharraf himself, elected as president for the next five years while still in army uniform, by an outgoing assembly.