ISLAMABAD (Thomson Financial) -- Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday launched her party's manifesto for elections in January 8, but reiterated that she was taking part in the polls under protest.

Bhutto held up a copy of the document for television cameras as she said that her party would not boycott the elections following President Pervez Musharraf's announcement that he would lift emergency rule on December 16.
'We are taking part in elections under protest, we are not giving them any legitimacy. But if we do not participate we leave the field for others,' Bhutto told reporters in Islamabad.
'Our policy is based on five 'E's -- employment, education, energy, environment and equality,' the former premier added.
Bhutto said that she could 'review our decision' on participating in the election if she could agree a common agenda with fellow former premier Nawaz Sharif and other parties.
'But it has to be a joint opposition, it must be a joint opposition,' she said.
Sharif said late Thursday that an opposition alliance featuring his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Party would boycott the elections, the first for nearly six years, saying that they would not be free or fair.
Bhutto, who has previously voiced fears that the vote will be rigged, said that the electoral process 'is not just' and said that Musharraf's regime had not taken any action on her complaints.
But she added: 'We have filed our nomination papers, we are preparing for the election and appealing to the people to help the PPP (Pakistan People's Party) and vote for them.'
Bhutto, who returned from exile in October amid negotiations for a power-sharing deal with Musharraf, denied rumors that she had met him on Thursday to revive the arrangement.
Relations between Musharraf and Bhutto collapsed after she was twice placed under house arrest to stop her leading protest marches during the state of emergency, but Western diplomats have been trying to patch things up.
'I did not meet General Musharraf yesterday. We have already denied it,' she said.