ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police blocked opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from leaving her home in Islamabad on Friday and sealed off the capital and nearby city of Rawalpindi to stop a rally against President Pervez Musharraf.
Bhutto, the politician most capable of galvanizing mass protests against Musharraf’s imposition of emergency rule, tried to breach a cordon and appealed to police to let her through.
“The government has been paralyzed,” Bhutto shouted to supporters across a barbed-wire barricade.
Two buses and an armored personnel carrier blocked the road outside her house.
“If he restores the constitution, takes off his uniform, gives up the office of the chief of army staff and announces an election by January 15, then it’s okay,” she said, vowing defiance if he failed to comply. She then returned to her residence.
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1 raza // Nov 9, 2007 at 7:58 pm
This just got worse. what’s next ? Do we have enough jails to put the whole nation?
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