Lahore, 26 Nov. (AKI/DAWN) - Pakistan's president Gen Pervez Musharraf will doff his military uniform and take the oath as a civilian president on 29 November, a television channel quoted Pakistan's attorney-general Malik Qayyum as saying on Sunday.

“He will take the oath for the next five-year term as civilian president on Thursday,” the attorney-general was quoted as saying.

Talking to state-run PTV and the Dawn News channel, Qayyum said that the newly appointed Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar would administer the oath and before that Musharraf would relinquish the post of the army chief.

He also said that emergency was likely to be lifted before general elections scheduled for 8 January, but a decision in this regard would be taken by the president himself.

Musharraf won the 6 October presidential election but he was prevented from being sworn in because of petitions made to the country's Supreme Court challenging his re-election as president while still holding the post of chief of the army.

However on 3 November Musharraf declared a state of emergency, sacked some of the judges on the Supreme Court and replaced them with others who endorsed the emergency rule.

The reconstituted court then dismissed the challenges to Musharraf's re-election as president.