Bhutto house arrest lifted
Authorities have lifted the house arrest imposed on Pakistan’s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, police said.
The move late last night came just hours before the visit of a senior US official expected to ask Pakistan’s military leader President Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule.
“The government has withdrawn the detention order,” Zahid Abbas, a senior police official, said near the barricaded house in Lahore, where Bhutto has been confined since Tuesday.
“The house is no longer a sub-jail but security will remain for her own protection. She’s free to move and anyone will be able to go to the house.”
