BHUTTO ARRESTED IN PAKISTAN-5,000 Supporters Detained

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Report: Pakistani Opposition Leader Under House Arrest
The Associated Press
Thursday, November 8, 2007; 11:56 PM


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A security official says Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been placed under house arrest in Islamabad, where police have surrounded her home.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/08/AR2007110802714.html?hpid=topnews


Pakistan's Bhutto, 5,000 supporters detained
Government blocks mass protest against Musharraf citing terror threats

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani police placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest Friday, uncoiling barbed wire in front of her Islamabad home and reportedly rounding up 5,000 of her supporters to block a mass protest against emergency rule.

Bhutto tried twice to leave by car but was blocked by police after a scuffle with her supporters who tried to remove a barricade. The former prime minister had planned to address a rally in nearby Rawalpindi, defying a ban on public gatherings.

In Rawalpindi, about 200 Bhutto supporters were dispersed by police using tear and batons. Dozens were arrested, an AP Television News cameraman reported. Later, there was a second, smaller clash between protesters and police. Aside from those incidents, the streets of the garrison city were mostly deserted.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21683231

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Dozens of security forces surrounded opposition leader and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's house Friday and cordoned off nearby streets, hours before a massive rally organized by her Pakistan People's Party against the state of emergency was due to start, sources close to Bhutto told CNN.

The sources said police have not served Bhutto an official house arrest notice, but according to local media reports she has been denied visitors and cannot leave her home.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/09/bhutto.house/index.html