Bhutto placed under house arrest again

By DPA

Islamabad : Pakistani authorities Monday placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto again under house arrest in the eastern city of Lahore to prevent her from holding a rally against the emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf 10 days ago, her party said.


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“Thousands of policemen have surrounded the temporary residence of Mohtrma (madam) Benazir Bhutto, and no one is allowed to see her,” a senior leader of Bhutto’s Pakistan People Party, Jehangir Badar told DPA by telephone.

Two-time prime minister, Bhutto, was to hold a march into Islamabad from Lahore, around 290 km from the capital city, on Tuesday morning.

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