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| Nawaz arrested! |
| 2009-03-15 |
 ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan's government has placed opposition leader Nawaz Sharif under house arrest to stop him taking part in an anti-government rally.Sharif's spokesman Pervez Rasheed says hundreds of police surrounded his house Sunday in the eastern city of Lahore. He says they showed Sharif aides a detention order stipulating Sharif was to be placed under house arrest for three days. There was no immediate word from Pakistani authorities about the move. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 SKOOOOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2009-03-15 15:04 |
| #3 Pakistan opposition leader Nawaz Sharif has defied an apparent house arrest order to head for a protest in Lahore. Describing the order - denied by the government - as "illegal" he left his Lahore home urging people to join him. Police fired tear gas at the stone-throwing protesters who plan to march to Islamabad to demand judges sacked by the former government be reinstated. But Mr Sharif's car was allowed to drive through a police cordon as it approached the rally in central Lahore. The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) leader later set off in a convoy of vehicles to join the protest "long march" to Islamabad. "It's now a matter of the future of Pakistani nation and coming generations," Mr Sharif told the Geo TV news channel by telephone from his bullet-proof car, reported Reuters news agency. "How can we abandon our mission halfway?" |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-03-15 12:02 |
| #2 The Inspector General of the Punjab Police and his officers have resigned and joined Sharif. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-03-15 11:32 |
| #1 Sharif, he don't like it... (apologies to The Clash) |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-03-15 02:17 |