(CNN) -- The United States will review its financial aid package to its key anti-terrorism ally Pakistan after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency there on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
"Obviously the situation has changed and we have to review where we are," Rice said, noting that it is a complicated matter because much of the aid goes to counterterrorism measures.
Earlier, Rice said Washington had not been consulted about Musharraf's plan to declare the emergency measure, which suspends the constitution and widens his powers.
"I'm disappointed in his decision," she said, noting that the last time she spoke to the Pakistani leader was on Tuesday.
Earlier Sunday Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told reporters that the state of emergency declared in Pakistan will be imposed for "as long as it is necessary."
Aziz said no decision had yet been made as to whether parliamentary elections scheduled for January would go ahead as planned, but earlier Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan on Dubai-based GEO TV said parliamentary elections would be delayed indefinitely.
The political turmoil comes ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on whether Musharraf's recent re-election is legal.
Aziz said there could be "some timing difference" on the schedule for elections but affirmed the Pakistan leadership was still committed to democracy. He said the state of emergency had been imposed to "bring more harmony to the pillars of state" and to protect against extremism in the country.
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The man is a dictator.
Who still feels we need to appease Pakistan and avoid cross-boarder hot pursuits of terrorists running from Afghanistan to the tribal areas of Pakistan?
We've been giving this man honey for years now, aid packages and training, its time to take a serious critical look at what we've been supporting for all these years. "500 "preventative arrests" made so far"