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November 09, 2007

PAKISTAN: Bhutto Under House Arrest

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PakbenazirOn the right is the image on the front of CNN.com right now. Benazir Bhutto has been placed under house arrest. From CNN:

...former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was involved in a standoff with security forces, who placed wire and barricades around her Islamabad home, preventing her attending a rally banned by the government, the opposition leader told CNN.

See video from CNN.

From the BBC:

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been served a 30-day detention notice.

The move came as she tried to leave her Islamabad home, which has been blocked off by police to stop her joining a planned rally in nearby Rawalpindi.

Police in the city clashed with Ms Bhutto's supporters defying a ban on rallies imposed under emergency rule.

Ms Bhutto has vowed to wage a campaign aimed at forcing President Pervez Musharraf to stand down as army chief.

Officers in riot gear blocked off the road to the former prime minister's house with barbed wire on Friday, with no-one being allowed in or out.

The 30-day detention order was served on Ms Bhutto after she tried to cross the police cordon.

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Updates also available on New York Times:
“Pakistan Opposition Leader Is Placed Under House Arrest”
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na (full story)
Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest Friday, an official of her party confirmed. The area around her residence in Islamabad was sealed off by the police.

For the latest news in the New York Times:
http://m.nytimes.com

Also: Bhutto under house arrest in Pakistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071109/ap_on_re_as/pakistan (full story)
**There are several video links available from Yahoo news (alongside & end of the article) -- AP, CNN, ABC videos

Jaya Kamlani

Pakistan's Bhutto released from house arrest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071109/ts_nm/pakistan_dc (full story)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was freed from house arrest late on Friday, hours after she was stopped from leaving her Islamabad home to lead a rally against the president's imposition of emergency rule…… Authorities had cited fear of a militant attack for the ban on Bhutto's rally and her detention.

Bhutto was expected to meet foreign diplomats on Saturday. She has also planned a motorcade from Lahore to Islamabad beginning on November 13 as part of her democracy campaign.

Jaya kamlani

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