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Bhutto Steps Up Challenge to Emergency Rule

Posted Nov 7, 07 5:14 AM CST in World 

(Newser) – The crisis in Pakistan escalated today as opposition leader Benazir Bhutto vowed to go ahead with a protest rally against emergency rule in Rawalpindi Friday, and lawyers battled police in the streets for a third day. Bhutto challenged President Pervez Musharraf to end military rule before Nov. 9, saying she will launch a massive long march from Lahore to Islamabad Nov. 13 unless civilian rule is restored.

The mayor of Rawalpindi, a garrison city just south of Islamabad, said police would enforce the ban on protests, and told the AP  there was a "strong threat" of another suicide attack against Bhutto, who escaped a blast that killed more than 140 supporters during a procession welcoming her home from exile.

Sources: Reuters, Guardian (UK), Associated Press

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Pakistani plainclothes police officers detain a protestor, center, during a rally against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's weekend declaration of a state of emergency, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007 in Lahore,...   (Associated Press)
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