A few hours ago a spokesman for Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will be prevented from leading the three-day motorcade from Lahore to Islamabad set to begin tomorrow. As I post this the latest news is that the government has put Bhutto under house arrest for seven days.
The authorities used house arrest to prevent Bhutto from attending a rally in Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh last Friday, and her compound in Lahore is already surrounded...
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