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MASOOD HAIDER: BHUTTO AGAIN PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST - DEMANDS MUSHARRAF RESIGN
IMMEDIATELY, RULES OUT PARTICIPATING IN ELECTIONS:
13/11/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 13 November 2007 -- Opposition
leader and the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto Tuesday demanded
that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to resign and ruled out serving under him
in a future government.
Ms Bhutto who was in Lahore, Pakistan, was placed under house arrest for
the second time in five days and stopped from leading a "long march"
for restoration of democracy.
Gen. Musharraf has imposed -de facto Martial law through emergency powers,
suspending the constitution, dismissing supreme court judges, arresting hundreds
of political and civil rights leaders.
Bhutto also said it was now likely her Pakistan People's Party
would boycott January parliamentary elections and indicated that she wanted to
build an alliance with other opposition leaders, including former Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif, to restore democracy.
It seems unlikely that the People's Party will participate in the
upcoming elections," Ms Bhutto said by telephone to a group of reporters in
Lahore
According to one report about 1,000 police officers surrounded the
house where Ms. Bhutto was staying in Lahore and arrested party workers who
tried to cross police lines to reach her. Riot police using barbed wire and dump
trucks loaded with sand blocked off the neighborhood.
“We will definitely try to come out,” said Farzana Raja,
a party spokesman, referring to street protests. “She will definitely try to
come out.” Minutes later, the police arrested Ms. Raja and several dozen other
party workers, and in the interview with CNN, Ms. Bhutto said, “My plans have
been taken out of my hands by force”.
About 4,000 police officers were deployed around the
city, and they arrested hundreds of workers from her political party today. Riot
police officers were outside government buildings here as well, in anticipation
of protests by Ms. Bhutto’s supporters.
Earlier the Musharraf government placed her under house arrest on
Monday for seven days, members of her party said, in an attempt to block the
march. On Friday, a huge police presence in the city of Rawalpindi prevented a
rally planned by her there.
Other opposition groups have accused her of mounting only
token protests while negotiating a power-sharing agreement with General
Musharraf, at the urging of the United States.
But Gen. Musharraf's latest measures have forced Ms Bhutto to completely
denounce Gen. Musharraf calling for his resignation.
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