PPP Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto, having been issued a seven-day restraint order to stop her from leading a mass rally, was placed under house arrest on Monday evening in Senator Latif KhosaÂ’s house, which was declared a sub-jail, according to the detention notice.
Sources said the deployment of law enforcement personnel outside the house of Senator Khosa was increased to around 300. However, SSP Operations Aftab Ahmed Cheema told journalists that Bhutto refused to receive the warrants for her house arrest.
No ‘long march’: Minister of State for Information Tariq Azim told AFP that the authorities concerned would not allow the PPP ‘long march’ to occur. “She [Bhutto] will not be allowed to break the law, hence there will be no ‘long march’,” he said, referring to the ban on political gatherings.
| The Ravi Town SP submitted a report stating that “Taliban commander” Qazi Hussain Ahmed had sent suicide bombers to Lahore. |
Sources, meanwhile, said the Ravi Town SP had submitted a report stating that “Taliban commander” Qazi Hussain Ahmed had sent suicide bombers to Lahore. There are also reports of eight North Waziristan suicide bombers hiding here. Sources in the Home Department, meanwhile, said an intelligence source has warned the Punjab government that a suicide bomber of Arab origin had reached Lahore and intended to target Bhutto and other prominent PPP leaders. A Home Department official said it had warned Bhutto’s security in-charge, Rehman Malik, of the looming threat.
| Surely the lowly Ravi SP hasn't spoken the unspeakable, revealing Qazi as the shadowy supreme "Taliban" commander? That's, of course, ridiculous. It would suggest that what we've assumed all along has been in fact correct. |
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