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Bhutto released from house arrest in Pakistan: official

Pakistan freed former premier Benazir Bhutto from house arrest late Friday, a senior interior ministry official said, after she was earlier blocked from leading a rally against emergency rule."It has been withdrawn," interior secretary Kamal Shah told AFP, referring to the house arrest order.Speaking via a megaphone from behind coils of barbed wire earlier, Bhutto called in vain on officers stationed outside her Islamabad compound to let her lead the planned protest against President Pervez Musharraf's state of emergency."I am your sister fighting for democracy," she told them as police blocked her route with armoured personnel carriers.Speaking with AFP by telephone from inside her bullet-proof car, she said: "I am not afraid of these tactics. My struggle is for the people of Pakistan, for their rights and for an end to dictatorship."Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azeem said the house arrest order was a temporary measure because of a fear of suicide bombers attacking the planned rally in nearby Rawalpindi, and would be lifted by Saturday."It was a temporary detention order to keep her from getting exposed to a very serious threat of suicide bombing," he told AFP before the order was withdrawn.Heightening tensions further, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the house of a minister in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing four people.It was the first attack on a civilian target since military ruler Musharraf declared the state of emergency Saturday citing growing Islamic militancy and an unruly judiciary."The bomber wanted to kill me, he came into my residence and clearly I was the target," said Amir Muqam, federal minister for political affairs and local head of Musharraf's ruling party.The state of emergency-Musharraf suspended the constitution, sacked the chief justice and imposed media curbs-has left him facing the most serious challenge to his rule since he seized power in a coup eight years ago.Amid intense international criticism, he has pledged legislative elections-originally slated for January-by February 15 and to resign as army chief as soon as the Supreme Court validates his October 6 presidential victory.Bhutto has dismissed those pledges as too vague, saying he must announce a firm date for polls and hang up his uniform by November 15.Her Pakistan People's Party said 5,000 of its activists had been arrested since the weekend, and police Friday arrested around 100 outside her home.Police warned that up to eight suicide bombers had infiltrated Rawalpindi, raising the spectre of a repeat of the double suicide bombing that killed 139 people at her homecoming parade in Karachi on October 18.But Bhutto said known suicide bombers should be arrested instead."I don't want Pakistan to become Iraq. I have to save you, I am not afraid of death because it is in the hands of God," she told supporters and police.The United States said she must be given freedom of movement and called on Pakistan to restore constitutional order and democratic norms."It is crucial for Pakistan's future that moderate political forces work together to bring Pakistan back on the path to democracy," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.Separately, police tear gassed workers from Bhutto's party in Rawalpindi, Peshawar and the northwestern town of Swabi, officials said.Despite weeks of speculation on a power-sharing arrangement with Musharraf, Bhutto had Wednesday called for mass demonstrations against emergency rule.The government also deployed 6,000 police officers to stop the protest in Rawalpindi, completely cordoning off a park in the garrison city where it was due to be held with barbed wire and concrete blocks.So far, Bhutto's party has stayed off the streets, but she has promised to march from Lahore to Islamabad next Tuesday if Musharraf does not agree to her demands.As Pakistan cracked down further on the media, BBC and CNN went off the air again Friday after reporting that Bhutto was detained, one day after they had reappeared on screens. Local cable news channels remained blacked out.
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