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House arrest for Bhutto is stopped

Posted by hardyberlin on 16th November 2007

Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan’s opposition leader, has finally been freed from house arrest now, but she rejected General Musharraf’s new interim government, deeming it „not acceptable“. Well, no wonder, if you take a look at this „new government“. They are all allies and old friends of Musharraf. But what did Musharraf said: An old cabinet is gone and a new one(an interim) has been sworn in. It sounds like a joke to me, a bad joke. But the protests arePakistanprotest1w_2 going  on, some are Pakistanprotest3wsmall ones like this one yesterday at the embassy in Berlin, which started on Tuesday, and some are big. I think tomorrow there will be a big one.

Update: At Saturday morning they where gone. A very short strike.

Update 2: On Monday at about 11:00 hrs they started again until 19:00 hrs. And so they do it every day. But who can call this a "Hunger Strike"? In my eyes this is a joke, but not a strike.

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