Most people are also critical of the imposition of the state of emergency.
The poll was carried out by the US-based International Republican Institute (IRI).
Meanwhile the president's lawyers say that he will soon lift the state of emergency, but only after ensuring that he cannot be brought before a court.
Public anger
The IRI say that their field workers interviewed more than 3,500 adults across Pakistan in what was the first broad survey of public opinion since President Musharraf declared a state of emergency on 3 November.
It suggests widespread public anger about the measures taken by him.
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More than 70% of those questioned said they did not support the President's re-election for another five year term.
Two-thirds said they wanted him to resign.
There was also strong opposition to the state of emergency itself - 70% of the people questioned said it should not have been declared.
A consistent majority - always more than 70% - opposed each of the main restrictions imposed by the state of emergency.
These include the suspension of the constitution, the ban on political rallies, the detention of the former Supreme Court judges and the curbs on the media.
Two-thirds of people surveyed said they thought the president's reason for the state of emergency was not to fight terrorism but to stop the Supreme Court from over-turning his re-election.
Important steps
The president does still command some support but from a minority of about a quarter to a third.
The BBC's Jill McGivering in Islamabad says that this snapshot of opinion is already slightly out of date.
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The opinions were sampled in November - after the imposition of the state of emergency - but before President Musharraf took other important steps such as standing down as head of the army and confirming that elections would go ahead in January.
It was also completed before he said that would end the state of emergency on 15 December.
Conceded
In a separate development, the president has formalised arrangements made last month to alter the constitution to ensure that decisions made during his term of office will be immune from legal challenges.
The president has conceded that measures he took to purge the judiciary, imprison political opponents and restrain the media were unconstitutional.
But he argues they were necessary to prevent political chaos and give the authorities more power to act against Islamic militants.
The president is expected to ensure the immunity measures are in place before he lifts the state of emergency.
Ashraf Alhajouj, imprisoned with five Bulgarians for more than eight years, filed the suit through a French group.
The move coincides with a visit to France by Mr Gaddafi, which enabled the group to invoke an international anti-torture convention against him.
It is unclear how far the action can go as Mr Gaddafi has diplomatic immunity.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his then-wife Celia have been credited with brokering the release of Mr Alhajouj and the other medics on 24 July.
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But questions were raised about the terms of the release after Mr Sarkozy signed major trade agreements with Libya the following day.
France is the first Western country to invite Mr Gaddafi for an official visit, but on Tuesday opposition MPs boycotted a meeting with him at the French parliament.
Immune from prosecution
The French charitable organisation Lawyers Without Borders filed the action against Mr Gaddafi, five senior Libyan police officers and a Libyan doctor.
Francois Cantier, president of group, said Mr Gaddafi's 400-strong delegation should be investigated.
"It is possible that these people are in the delegation and we are asking that this be checked," he told the BBC News website.
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The case cites a 1984 convention allowing national authorities to initiate legal action against anyone visiting the country who is suspected of torture.
But Mr Gaddafi has been immune from prosecution in France since 2001, when the country's top court ruled that as a head of state he could not face legal action over the bombing of a French passenger jet in 1989 in which 170 people died.
Mr Cantier said he did not want to let Mr Gaddafi's visit to France pass without the case of the medics being brought to public attention.
"Our suit also has a symbolic value, since we know that [Mr Gaddafi] was at the origin of this situation... nothing in Libya can happen without Gaddafi."
'Electrodes'
The medics were convicted of deliberately injecting 438 children with HIV-tainted blood. Fifty-six of the children have since died.
The six, who were jailed in 1999, have always proclaimed their innocence and say they were tortured to confess.
They initially faced the death penalty before their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.
In an interview for Dutch TV after his release, Dr Alhajouj said the Libyan authorities had drugged him and attached electrodes to his feet and genitals.
Police dogs were set on him, and he was later forced to pretend that he had been treated well, he said.
Mr Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has also said the medics were tortured.
Former Senator George Mitchell, who led the investigation, said several All-Stars were suspected of using steroids and human growth hormones.
He also called for MLB to outsource drug-testing and form an investigative arm to pursue allegations of drug use.
In response, MLB head Bud Selig said he embraced all the recommendations made.
Speaking at a news conference, he said that baseball fans "deserve a game that is played on a level playing field, where all who compete do so fairly".
Among those named in the report is Barry Bonds, who was charged last week with lying to a jury about steroid use.
Prosecutors allege that the San Francisco Giants outfielder, who became the sport's record home-run hitter in September, lied under oath when he said in 2003 that he had never knowingly used performance-enhancing substances.
Mr Bonds denied accusations on Friday that he had used a previously untraceable steroid from a San Francisco-based company called Balco.
Batboy allegations
The inquiry was instigated by Mr Selig, the MLB Commissioner, in March 2006, following the publication of a book that alleged the use of performance-enhancing substances by Mr Bonds.
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"For more than a decade there has been widespread illegal use of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances by players in Major League Baseball in violation of federal law and baseball policy," Mr Mitchell said at a news conference.
"The response by baseball was slow to develop and was initially ineffective, but it gained momentum after the adoption of a mandatory random drug-testing culture in 2002."
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Those linked to suspected drugs use in the report include some of the sport's biggest stars: Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield, Eric Gagne, Miguel Tejada, David Justice, Chuck Knoblauch and Andy Pettitte.
All the players were invited to respond to the allegations in the report. Whether they will face disciplinary action is unclear, especially as many no longer play in Major League teams.
Any penalties for active players are unlikely to be as severe as the 50-game suspensions given to those who have recently tested positive for steroids.
Mr Mitchell, a former Senate Majority Leader, urged baseball's authorities to look to the future rather than penalising players for past offences, many of which occurred when different policies were in place.
He also called on the public and media not to focus solely on who was named in the report - and for baseball to be allowed "a fresh start".
Internet pharmacies
Several media reports have said that had it not been for a former New York Mets bat boy, Mr Mitchell's report would have been far less revealing, as the players and their union were uncooperative and his inquiry did not have the power of subpoena.
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Kirk Radomski, who pleaded guilty to distributing steroids in April, testified that he provided banned steroids, human growth hormones and stimulants to dozens of players by mail order between 1995 and 2005.
Although none of the allegations are based on positive drug tests, the report cited cancelled cheques, shipping slips and phone records as evidence of the players' involvement.
Mr Mitchell also met district attorneys in Albany, New York, who have been leading an investigation into claims of drugs distributed illegally by internet pharmacies.
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Media reports about doping in baseball began in the late 1980s, but the sport did not start testing and punishing players until more than a decade later.
MLB and its players agreed in September 2002 to test for steroids, although penalties were not introduced for positive tests until 2004.
A ban on human growth hormones was agreed in 2005, although there is no reliable test to detect the substances.
Drug-testing criticised
The report also criticised MLB officials and the players' union, and called for major changes in the league's drug-testing programme:
- Appointing an independent administrator or hiring an outside agency to run the sport's drug-testing programme. It is currently run by the MLB in conjunction with the players' union
- Ensuring "state-of-the-art" testing, including introducing additional year-round tests
- Allowing the testing administrator to actively investigate "non-analytical positives" - information which shows a player broke rules in the absence of a positive drug test
- Improving player education about performance-enhancing drugs
Mr Mitchell said one of the most serious consequences was that "hundreds of thousands" of high school-aged athletes had also been encouraged to use banned substances.
Some observers questioned in advance whether Mr Mitchell might suffer a conflict of interest, saying they were troubled by his friendship with Mr Selig and his close affiliation with the Boston Red Sox, of which he is a director.
Mr Mitchell also used to be chairman of the Walt Disney Company, which owns ESPN, the US TV sports network that has paid $2.4bn to televise MLB games until 2013.
Speaking at a security conference in Bahrain, Mr Narayanan said new al-Qaeda training schools had been established close to the Afghan-Pakistan border.
He said Indian intelligence reports had also identified the recruits as being from 14 different countries.
He said their targets also included high profile politicians.
Economic infrastructure in the Gulf region, such as oil pipelines and storage depots, electricity pylons and ocean going tankers are also at risk, said Mr Narayanan.
International brigade
The training of recruits, he said, had become extremely rigorous and the Gulf Arab states were highly vulnerable to such threats.
Referring to what he called "asymmetric war techniques" - the practice of attacking a more powerful enemy's weak spots - India's security adviser said the region faced a new paradigm of al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism through its extensive network of planning, funding, training and arms supply.
The training schools, he said, were turning out a new international brigade of terrorists.
Delegates of the San Joaquin diocese in Fresno voted 173-22 to secede.
It follows years of disagreement with Church authorities triggered by the consecration of a gay bishop in 2003.
The Episcopal Church is the US wing of the 77m-member Anglican Communion, which is threatened by a deep split between conservatives and liberals.
The Episcopal Church says that in recent years 32 of its 7,600 congregations had left, with another 23 voting to leave but not taking the final step.
San Joaquin is the first of the Church's 110 dioceses to complete the split.
In a later vote, the diocese accepted an invitation to join a conservative South American Anglican congregation.
'Contrary to teachings'
"This is the first time, I believe, that a diocese has finally said 'enough' in terms of the liberal theology of the Episcopal Church," said Bishop John-David Schofield of the San Joaquin diocese ahead of the vote.
Anglican leaders in many parts of the world were angered by the consecration of openly-gay Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
Conservative churchgoers believe active homosexuality is contrary to the Anglican Communion's teachings, which are rooted in the Bible.
However, liberal Anglicans have argued that biblical teachings on justice and inclusion should take precedence.