Pakistan lifts Bhutto detention order
Lahore
(Pakistan),
Nov
16:
Pakistan's
government
has
lifted
a
house
arrest
order
imposed
on
opposition
leader
Benazir
Bhutto
to
prevent
her
from
leading
a
rally
against
President
Pervez
Musharraf's
emergency
rule,
police
said
early
today.
''The government has withdrawn Bhutto's detention order, and from now, she is free to move wherever she likes,'' Aftab Cheema, police chief of the eastern city of Lahore, told Reuters.
''Police
will
remain
(outside)
for
her
security,
but
there
will
be
no
restriction
on
her
movement.''
Reuters
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Story first published: Friday, November 16, 2007, 9:26 [IST]