Bhutto calls for foreign support against emergency

By DPA

Islamabad : Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto Saturday called upon foreign governments to support the opposition against President Pervez Musharraf, who has placed the country under emergency rule.


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“The country is under attack from militants and the military regime,” she told a gathering of around 80 foreign diplomats in Islamabad.

“I appeal to you to stand with us for free and fair elections,” she said, adding that the international community should lend its moral support to the opposition campaign against Musharraf, who came to power in a 1999 coup and is now a key US ally in the war against terrorism.

“It is a misperception that Musharraf alone stands in the way of extremism,” Bhutto stressed.

She added that the security forces, which suffered heavy losses in clashes with militants in recent months, “are demoralised because they are attacking their own people”

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