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Bhutto Calls on Musharraf to Step Down
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 13, 2007 07:40am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Pakistani Government Also Bars Procession To Protest Emergency
By Emily Wax, Pamela Constable and Howard Schneider
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 13, 2007; 8:25 AM
LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov. 13 -- Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in harsh comments issued by phone while under house arrest, on Tuesday demanded that President Pervez Musharraf step down and appeared to scotch any lingering chance of a powersharing arrangement between them.
In Karachi, meanwhile, clashes erupted between local police and members of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, with reports of mass arrests and gunshots fired at local police stations. Bhutto has estimated that in excess of 10,000 of her party members may now be in police custody -- just one of several facts she listed in explaining her decision to call for Musharraf's resignation.
"I am calling for Gen. Musharraf to step down, to quit, to leave," Bhutto said in a group phone call with reporters. "I feel he's done too little, too late. He keeps trying to bide time. He keeps trying to break momentum . . . Pakistan is a nuclear-armed country. We cannot afford this kind of chaos and instability. Pakistan needs stability. I could not serve as prime minister with Gen. Musharraf as president. I wish I could." |
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