Authorities place detention order on Bhutto
Pakistani authorities placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for the second time in four days, police said tonight.
The move is aimed at preventing the former prime minister from staging a huge rally tomorrow in protest against emergency rule imposed by President General Pervez Musharraf.
The home department of Punjab province – where Bhutto is currently staying at the house of an MP in her party – issued a seven-day detention order against her, according to Aftab Cheema, the chief of operations of Lahore city police.
“She has been detained and she won’t be allowed to come out,” Cheema said.
