Washington: The lifting of emergency by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf does not mean he is "back on track", a Democrat presidential hopeful has observed, saying that there were still "incredible restrictions" on the press and little time left for other parties to campaign for the polls.

"No, I don't," Joseph Biden, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, replied when asked if he had the confidence that Musharraf is back on track and he will do the right thing.

"Because, if you look at the state of emergency he lifted, there's still incredible restrictions on the press. He's lifted it at the very last minute.

There's only three or four weeks left to campaign, for any other parties to go out and campaign. He's does the bare minimum," the Senator said.

"Now we have to keep the pressure on to make sure that these (the elections) are as fair as they can possibly be in the remaining four weeks, that there's total access, on the part of both (Nawaz) Sharif and (Benazir) Bhutto, to be able to go out there and campaign," the Delaware Democrat, who is an aspirant for the party nomination for the 2008 presidential ticket, said on CNN's "Late Edition".

Biden, an outspoken critic of the fashion in which the Bush Administration has gone about with a "Musharraf Policy" as opposed to a "Pakistan Policy", also pointed out that before shedding his uniform, Musharraf "unilaterally" amended the constitution in several parts.

Source : PTI