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Pakistan Ends Bhutto Detention

Musharraf lifts house arrest, prepares for US diplomat

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 15, 2007 7:29 PM CST

(Newser) – Benazir Bhutto has been released from house arrest and her detention orders withdrawn just hours before Pakistan's President Perzez Musharraf swears in an interim government of his choosing and a US diplomat arrives for talks, Reuters reports. "She is free to move wherever she... Read full story »

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