arrest

I don’t understand why Musharraf let Benazir Bhutto into the country. So, Pervez Musharraf places her under home arrest.  Then he thinks that that was a mistake.  Then he decides well may be she should be under house arrest.   This isn’t going to end well.  I see violence.  I see bloodshed and increased instability in Middle East.

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From TPM:

Pakistani authorities placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for the second time in four days to prevent her staging a grand procession on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said.

A seven-day detention order was issued by the government of Punjab province, where the former prime minister is staying at the house of a lawmaker from her party, Aftab Cheema, the chief of operations of Lahore city police, told The Associated Press.

“She has been detained and she won’t be allowed to come out,” Cheema said. (more…)