Bhutto calls on Musharraf to resign

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Source: CCTV.com | 11-14-2007 09:14

Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto speaks with media representatives outside the tomb of Pakistan's national poet Allama Mohammad during her visit in Lahore, 12 November 2007. (AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)

Pakistan's former Prime Minister is under house arrest again. This time Benazir Bhutto is being detained for a week in Lahore. Now she is demanding that President Pervez Musharraf resign.

Bhutto was put under house arrest for the second time in five days.

Police officials reached the Khosa House early Tuesday with detention orders. The detention is apparently to stop her from leading a march to the capital, Islamabad.

In a telephone interview, Bhutto criticized President Musharraf's emergency rule and called on Musharraf to resign.

Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan People's Party Leader, said, "We're marching to end martial law and we're marching because it's time for General Musharraf to leave, simply leave.

The opposition leader also ruled out serving under Musharraf in a future government.

A supporter of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto struggles between plainclothes policemen and protesters while demonstrating against President Pervez Musharraf near the site where Bhutto was being held under house arrest in Lahore, November 13, 2007. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)

She says thousands of her supporters are still attempting to join her proposed march on Tuesday.

An aide to Bhutto claims her supporters will storm the barricades and allow her to embark on the planned three-day procession.

But a senior government official says the march will not be allowed. Police have also detained dozens of demonstrators who tried to approach her residence.

President Musharraf declared emergency rule on November 3rd and suspended the constitution. He said the move was to cope with increases in extremist activity and terrorist attacks and abuse by the country's judiciary. He also promised to quit his army chief position before taking oath as president for the second term.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei