Detention Order Issued For Pakistan's Bhutto

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Gen. Pervez Musharraf Moves To Limit Opposition Candidates Against His Government

http://cbs4.com/national/pakistan.elections.Bhutto.2.565907.html


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CBS News) ― Police say the government of Punjab province has issued a seven-day detention order against opposition leader Benazir Bhuttto.

Earlier, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government declared that it would block a 185-mile protest march Tuesday by Bhutto. Her party said the march would proceed, setting up a perilous showdown between the two leaders.

Hundreds of armed police were deployed Monday in the streets around the home where Bhutto is staying, and sharpshooters took to surrounding rooftops. A series of three steel-and-barbed wire barricades were erected around her house.

A conflict over the march between Bhutto and Musharraf could intensify the political crisis engulfing Pakistan and further cloud the prospect of the two leaders forming a U.S.-backed alliance against rising Islamic extremism.

Bhutto was due to leave the eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday morning for the capital, Islamabad. The journey was expected to take about three days, and her party said thousands of supporters were expected to join her en route.

The caravan is meant to pressure Musharraf to end the state of emergency he imposed on Nov. 3 and also to give up his post as army chief.

"All processions, rallies, political gatherings at present are outlawed," Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azim told The Associated Press. "So if she breaks the law then obviously she will not be allowed to do it."

[greencrow]

It's difficult to find a 'good guy' in Pakistan these days...what to do...what to DOoooo...?

You can choose either the malodorifious Musshareff or the beatified Bhutto...dressed and photographed by the western M$M as the Virgin Mary...so virginal, so holy, so...well, puppet-like in her cartoon charactarization of the white-hatted hero... coming to the rescue of the country... just about to fall into despotism...or...perhaps off the rails of the neo-con zionist globalization track...

Frankly, I think both Benazir and Musharef stink..they're both puppets and they're probably both despised by average Pakistanians. But, with the state of journalism the way it is, we'll probably never know, now will we?

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[Klatoo]

Ms.Bhutto comes to an autocratic frame of mind quite naturally.Her family happens to be one of the largest landowners in Pakistan.Her father,of course, was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was a former Prime Minister of Pakistan and an autocrat himself who would make George Bush blush for falling short in that department.He ran afoul of the military which is always the power behind the throne in Pakistan and promptly met the hangman's noose on trumped up charges.

Benazir met and married a corrupt businessman Asif Zardari after denouncing corruption in the country.Zardari used Bhutto's power to steal nearly 1.5 billion dollars and put it in Swiss bank accounts.The lovely couple escaped to London when another corrupt individual by the name Shah Nawaz Khan beat her in an election, a rare occurrence in Pakistan.Musharraf overthrew Shah Nawaz Khan in a coup and has been in power since.

Calling Bhutto an improvement over Musharraf would be,to put it mildly, an exaggeration.Her own track record is one of corruption, cronyism,abuse of power and reckless adventurism.

Pakistan's long suffering people are in for another round of pain with no possibility of any rescue from these scoundrels.