About 200 police officers to prevent the Oppsitionsführerin leaves her
house. Your Appeal "We are your sisters!" unheard. Up to 5,000
government opponents were arrested.
The Pakistani police cordoned off on Friday in the early morning hours
with nearly 200 men of the house of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto
in Islamabad. Also adjacent streets are controlled. The government
officials told the news agency AFP. A senior government official said
the measure was intended solely to protect the former Prime Minister
Bhutto. "There are no restrictions on their movement," he added. "She
is free to go wherever she wants. But when she tries, she will stop,"
said a government official who does not want to be named.
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In the early afternoon (local time) Bhutto tried to break through the
ranks of the police. As they advanced with their armored car, they
called on security forces by megaphone: "From the way we are your
sisters, my father spent his life for you and gave this nation!.." The
former President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979 under the
military dictatorship.
A close confidante of Bhutto told news agency Reuters, Bhutto had
crossed the first barrier. However, a police van then had the car in a
narrow street, placed in the way. Bhutto's party criticized the police
action. The arrest was the "illegal arrest of a democratic leader,"
the PPP chairman Anwar Baig told the house of the ex-prime minister.
Arrested in the night
Bhutto had called on Friday for mass protests against President Pervez
Musharraf imposed by a state of emergency. Were planned before the big
event of the Pakistani opposition up to 5,000 government opponents
arrested, said the PPP.
The police in the eastern province of Punjab have already started on
Wednesday with the arrest and taken until the wee hours of Friday
morning, more opposition in custody. A security guard, not to be named
by name, said, however, there were about 1,000 people have been
arrested.
Mass rally will be prevented
Bhutto had called their followers to a mass rally to Rawalpindi, the
neighboring town of the capital Islamabad. The police had announced
that it would allow the state of emergency because no meeting. The
park in Rawalpindi, where the opposition leader to hold the
demonstration did was shut off.
"We have tried to convince them to Benazir Bhutto to cancel the rally,
but they did not agree," said a police officer of the AFP. "We had no
other choice than to enforce this restriction," he added. More than
6,000 police had been ordered to Rawalpindi, said police chief Saud
Aziz. "It is absolutely impossible, that the meeting will take place
and we will apply the law, if someone tries to hurt it," he said.
"We go there anyway"
"You can do whatever they want, we will still go to Rawalpindi," said
a spokesman for Bhutto's PPP. Bhutto herself was also to attend the
opposition rally. Musharraf on Thursday warned of more protests of the
opposition, would act against his government with a heavy hand.
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