Click to play videoNew Delhi: Benazir Bhutto was put under house arrest yet again early on Tuesday morning. She was to lead an anti-emergency rally from Lahore to Islamabad and had tried to strike a conciliatory note on Monday evening.
General Pervez Musharraf had crushed her protests even before they started. The arrest ironically came within an hour of a Commonwealth threat to suspend Pakistan from its councils if Emergency was not lifted.
The Commonwealth, after a meeting late on Monday, had set a deadline of November 22 for the Pakistan government to end emergency and Musharraf to quit army.
"The message is you've got about 10 days. We believe you can achieve this. It will mean you stay within the full ambit of the Commonwealth. But on the other hand if you ignore and continue to violate those Commonwealth principles, you know the consequences,” says Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group Secretary-General, Don Mckinnon.
Musharraf's promise to hold elections by January 9 does not seem to have cut ice back home either. The Pakistan Muslim League and Jamaat-e-Islami have said they could boycott elections if they are held under emergency.
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