Pakistan's Supreme Court has dismissed five major challenges to President Musharraf's re-election, leaving one to be heard later in the week.
Earlier the court met to consider the legality of President Musharraf's bid for office.
The court's ruling on his October re-election is viewed as crucial, because the military ruler has vowed to quit as army chief and become a civilian president if the verdict goes in his favour.
Mr Musharraf has recommended that elections be called for 8 January, but he did not say whether emergency rule would be lifted beforehand.
Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has said she is trying to form a united front against Mr Musharraf and is considering a boycott.
Yesterday, US Envoy John Negroponte, called on Mr Musharraf to lift the state of emergency.
The Supreme Court has been purged since the state of emergency was imposed on 3 November with the former chief justice, a long time critic of Mr Musharraf, refusing to take a new oath.
Opposition leaders say Mr Musharraf declared the emergency because he feared the court was about to rule against his re-election.
