11-10-2007, 04:21 AM
<b>Pakistan's Bhutto released from house arrest </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was freed from house arrest late on Friday, hours after she was stopped from leaving her Islamabad home to lead a rally against the president's imposition of emergency rule.
"The detention order has been withdrawn," said Aamir Ali Ahmed, acting deputy commissioner of Islamabad
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Bhutto, the politician most capable of galvanizing mass protests against army chief Musharraf, had appealed to police to let her through their cordon.
"The government has been paralyzed," Bhutto shouted to supporters across a barbed-wire barricade.
<b>"If he restores the constitution, takes off his uniform, gives up the office of the chief of army staff and announces an election by January 15, then it's OK," </b>she said, vowing defiance if Musharraf did not comply.
Police wielded batons and fired teargas to break up small protests in several parts of the country.
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"The detention order has been withdrawn," said Aamir Ali Ahmed, acting deputy commissioner of Islamabad
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Bhutto, the politician most capable of galvanizing mass protests against army chief Musharraf, had appealed to police to let her through their cordon.
"The government has been paralyzed," Bhutto shouted to supporters across a barbed-wire barricade.
<b>"If he restores the constitution, takes off his uniform, gives up the office of the chief of army staff and announces an election by January 15, then it's OK," </b>she said, vowing defiance if Musharraf did not comply.
Police wielded batons and fired teargas to break up small protests in several parts of the country.
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