Police arrest a supporter of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto outside Bhutto’s residence where she remains under house arrest in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday. (David Guttenfelder/The Associated Press)
International Herald Tribue, November 13, 2007
By David Rohde and Jane perlez
LAHORE, Pakistan: Hundreds of riot police early Tuesday blocked the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and her supporters from making a planned long march from this eastern city 160 miles through Punjab Province to the capital, Islamabad. Bhutto, barricaded in her home here, called for the resignation of Pakistan’s president, General Pervez Musharraf, in a phone interview with CNN this morning.
About 900 police officers surrounded the house where Bhutto was staying here and arrested party workers who tried to cross police lines to reach her. Riot police using barbed wire and dump trucks loaded with sand blocked off the neighborhood.
“We will definitely try to come out,” said Farzana Raja, a party spokesman, referring to street protests. “She will definitely try to come out.” Minutes later, the police arrested Raja and several dozen other party workers, and in the interview with CNN, Bhutto said, “My plans have been taken out of my hands by force.”
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