Pakistan police block Bhutto again

Source: Reuters

Pakistan police block Bhutto again
Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:13am EST

By Simon Gardner and Kamran Haider

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Police blocked opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto from visiting Pakistan's
deposed chief justice on Saturday and President
Pervez Musharraf resisted U.S. calls to end
emergency rule.

Bhutto, herself kept under house arrest for most
of Friday, tried to approach former chief justice
Iftikhar Chaudhry's home where he is being
detained.

Police parked trucks on the road to block her path.

After imposing emergency rule and suspending the
constitution a week ago citing a hostile judiciary
and rising militancy, General Musharraf sacked
most of the Supreme Court's judges and has since
replaced them with more amenable ones.

"He is the chief justice, he is the real chief
justice," Bhutto blared over a megaphone,
demanding all the judges be reinstated.

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