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Ringed by barricades and armed police, Benazir Bhutto has used
her house arrest to attack President Pervez Musharraf after becoming the most prominent victim of Pakistan's emergency rule.
The former prime minister, who had been on the verge of concluding a power-sharing deal with Gen Musharraf, was detained in the capital, Islamabad, to prevent her from leading a planned demonstration against the state of emergency.
However, she was able to deliver a defiant address to crowds gathered outside. Standing behind coils of barbed wire, Ms Bhutto said: "Pakistan's integrity is in danger. Militants are waving their flag. The flag of Pakistan is being lowered. The Government has been paralysed."
There was an air of improvised theatre outside Ms Bhutto's spacious place of confinement. The leader of the Pakistan People's Party made two vainglorious attempts to break out by driving towards the sturdy wire barricades which had been strung across the roads leading to her house.
The police stopped her from escaping, but then stood by as she addressed her followers.
Later last night, Tariq Azeem Khan, the deputy information minister, stated that the state of emergency would be over shortly, and added that all restrictions on Ms Bhutto had been lifted and she was no longer under house arrest.
If so, Ms Bhutto should be able to move freely today. However, the confinement - under a warrant which was originally meant to last for three days - succeeded in preventing her from leading a demonstration in the neighbouring city of Rawalpindi on Friday.
Earlier, Ms Bhutto told The Daily Telegraph that she would not resume negotiations with Gen Musharraf until he lifted the state of emergency, resigned as army chief - in accordance with his earlier promises - and allowed the constitution to be "revived".
"It is a fight for democracy," said Ms Bhutto. "There is no political process, it is a farce. I want a roadmap to democracy."
Until yesterday, Ms Bhutto was one of the few critics of the regime who had not faced any restrictions. She was in sporadic telephone contact with Gen Musharraf, with whom she hoped to conclude a power-sharing agreement.
It may still happen. Gen Musharraf has used his emergency powers to sack Iftikhar Chaudhry, the chief justice, as well as other supreme court members.
The regime is now packing the court with new judges who are expected to give Gen Musharraf's re-election last month a clean bill of health.
But Ms Bhutto pointedly refrained from calling for the sacked justices to be restored. This demand did not figure among her conditions for restarting talks with the general, who has promised elections by Feb 15.
"After the constitution is restored, all judges will be automatically restored," she said.
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