Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto today asked President Pervez Musharraf to lift the emergency, revive the Constitution and hold elections under an “independent caretaker government”.

Reminding Musharraf of his commitments, both public and private, to confidence building measures that would move Pakistan forward in the transition to democracy, she said that he (Musharraf) has imposed martial law at a time when he should be demonstrating to the country and the world his seriousness in all owing free and fair elections.