Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Monday that
she had ended talks with President General Pervez Musharraf as "he
has not honored his commitments," according to local press
reports.
Pakistan's opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto speaks to the media after praying at the tomb
of Pakistan's national poet Allama Mohammad Iqbal during a visit to
Lahore November 12, 2007.
Bhutto told reporters in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore
that fair and transparent elections were not possible in the state
of emergency and demanded lifting of emergency, restoration of the
deposed chief justice and all other judges who did not take oath
under the Provincial Constitutional Order (PCO).
On Nov. 3, Musharraf imposed emergence and suspended the
constitution.
Bhutto said that she would go ahead with her plan of long march,
scheduled to begin from Lahore Tuesday, saying that she discussed
with party leaders about the long march plan.
The Punjab provincial government has banned public rallies and
has said that it will strictly implement the ban.
The government blocked her rally in Rawalpindi near Islamabad
last Friday.
Pakistan's opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto (R) prays with the mother of Zaheer Ahmed, a
victim of the October 18 suicide attacks in Karachi, during her
visit to Lahore November 12, 2007.
Bhutto claimed that around 5,000 of her party workers were
arrested a few days before the rally in Rawalpindi.
(Xinhua News Agency November 13, 2007)
