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Last Updated: Friday, 9 November 2007, 05:45 GMT
(翻譯好累 弄不到一半就要去上班了orz)
Bhutto house surrounded by police
The house of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been surrounded
by police, hours before her party is due to hold a mass rally.
在反對黨舉行示威遊行的幾小時前
巴基斯坦反對領袖 Benazir Bhutto 的居所被警方包圍
She has not been formally placed under house arrest, and police say the
measure at her residence in Islamabad is for her own safety.
Bhutto 並未正式被拘補
警方也說他居所周圍的警力是為了保護他的安全
Several thousand of her supporters are reported detained ahead of the rally
planned to be held in Rawalpindi.
據報 數以千計的支持者預計在 Rawalpindi 舉行的示威前夕被拘留
Rallies are outlawed under the current emergency rule in Pakistan.
抗議活動在目前的緊急狀態下是違法的
There have also been warnings that the protest, due to start at 1300
(0800GMT) could be targeted by suicide bombers.
也有消息指出 預計在下午一點(台北時間下午四點)舉行的遊行可能成為
自殺炸彈攻擊的目標
It is still unclear whether Ms Bhutto is actually under house arrest.
目前仍不確定 Bhutto 女士是否在他的住所遭到逮捕
"She's free to go anywhere but if she tries to go to the rally she'll be
stopped," said an anonymous government official quoted by Reuters news agency.
路透報導 一名不具名的官員說
"他可以自由行動 但如果他要去抗議活動我們會阻止他"
On Thursday, President Pervez Musharraf pledged that he would hold elections
by 15 February, but Ms Bhutto dismissed his words as "vague".
She also called for General Musharraf to give up his role as army chief.
"This is yet another vague announcement. We want him to hang up his uniform
by 15 November," said Ms Bhutto.
Suicide bomb warning
She had vowed to go ahead with a protest rally in Rawalpindi on Friday and
then a march from Lahore to Islamabad on 13 November if Gen Musharraf does
not meet these demands and end the state of emergency.
The police chief of Rawalpindi, Saud Aziz, meanwhile warned that up to eight
suicide bombers were in the city ahead of Friday's planned protest.
"Naturally they will target big public meetings like what you have seen in
Karachi," Mr Aziz told the AFP news agency.
Ms Bhutto survived an assassination attempt in Karachi on 18 October that
killed nearly 140 people.
Earlier the PPP said more than 700 party members had been arrested overnight
ahead of the rally planned for Rawalpindi.
The authorities have warned that police will not allow the demonstration to
go ahead.
'Indispensable ally'
Gen Musharraf announced his decision to hold parliamentary elections before
15 February hours after coming under pressure from US President George W Bush
to hold elections in January, as scheduled.
The president imposed a state of emergency on Saturday, blaming militant
violence and an unruly judiciary.
On Wednesday, Mr Bush had telephoned the Pakistani leader to urge him to call
off the state of emergency and stand down as head of the army.
"My message was that we believe strongly in elections and that you ought to
have elections soon and you need to take off your uniform... so I had a very
frank discussion with him," Mr Bush said.
But he also noted that Gen Musharraf had been an "indispensable ally".
Gen Musharraf told state media: "General elections in the country will be
held by February 15 next year... It was my commitment and I am fulfilling it."
He also renewed a pledge to quit as head of the army, if and when the Supreme
Court validated his recent election as president for another term.
"When they allow this notification, that is the time when I can take the oath
as president and remove the uniform," he said after chairing a meeting of the
National Security Council.
A government spokesman also said a media blackout would be eased, with
international channels like the BBC and CNN allowed back on air.
Meanwhile the man sacked by Gen Musharraf as chief justice of the Supreme
Court, Iftikhar Chaudhry, has called on Pakistanis to forget their
differences and stand up for the supremacy of the constitution.
Speaking to the BBC, Justice Chaudhry said an independent judiciary was
essential for democracy:
"The new chief justice and judges do not have a lawful constitutional
position. As far as running any sort of campaign on the streets is concerned,
our campaign will be run by the 160 million people of Pakistan and the
political parties," he said.
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