Bhutto Off Home Arrest Ahead Of U.S. Visit

Pakistani Students Take To The Web And Islamist Party Members To The Street To Protest Military Rule

(CBS/AP)  Police said they lifted the house arrest of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday, hours before the arrival of a senior U.S. envoy who was expected to urge the country's military leader to end emergency rule.

The move came after Bhutto - while still confined to a house in Lahore - urged fellow opposition leaders to join her in an alliance that could govern until elections.

Despite Bhutto's call, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has given no sign he will hand over power. He has named his own interim prime minister and was expected to announce Friday a caretaker Cabinet to oversee parliamentary elections promised by Jan. 9.

“The government has withdrawn the detention order,” Zahid Abbas, a senior police official, told an Associated Press reporter near the barricaded house where Bhutto has been confined for three days.

“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,” Abbas said.

Meanwhile, two children and an adult were killed during a gunbattle between police and protesters in the southern city of Karachi - the first deaths during demonstrations since Musharraf suspended the constitution Nov. 3. Protests were reported in other cities and more party activists were arrested.

Also Thursday, political unrest deepened as one of the country's main Islamist parties called its first protests for Friday against the state of emergency, adding the voice of factions opposed to Musharraf's alliance with the U.S. to the recent protests by lawyers, students and secular parties against military rule.

Many Pakistani students are using the Web as well as the street to make their point.

Samad Khurram said that updating his online newsletter, the Emergency Telegraph, has practically become a full-time job. Offering advice on everything from avoiding arrest to staging “flash” rallies and organizing petitions, it is e-mailed to some 6,000 people.

With independent TV news off the air, the newsletter also provides links to Web sites with streaming video, as well as media contacts, inspirational references to figures like Che Guevara and messages from detained human rights activists and judges.

“If my family knew what I was doing they would put me under house arrest,” joked the 21-year-old, who is taking a semester off from Harvard. “And they would definitely take away my computer.”

Lawyers have been the standard-bearers for dissent since Nov. 3, when President Gen. Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency, saying it was needed to address Islamic militancy and stabilize the country.

Critics say the general is trying to maintain his hold on power, noting that one of his first steps was to oust all Supreme Court judges who could have disqualified his re-election as president in a vote last month by national and provincial legislators.

Most rallies this month have been quickly and often violently stamped out, and thousands of people have been jailed, including cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan, considered by many a symbol of the youth movement.

Muhammad Naveed, a student from Punjab University in the eastern city of Lahore, said many young people worry about what will happen to those detained.

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I am disappointed with Benazir Bhutto''s decision changing her mind not to form an alliance with Pres. Pervez Musharraf to counter growing unrest and an increasingly militant extremist insurgency inside Pakistan. Pres. Pervez Musharraf is not the monster Benazir Bhutto is making him out to be and over time she will get all that she wants in the form of Democracy for Pakistan quicker being on the inside instead of being in opposition on the outside! If Benazir Bhutto is really concerned about doing what is best for Pakistan, a joint alliance with Pres. Pervez Musharraf no matter how uncomfortable is the best path right now, the path Benazir Bhutto has chosen seems to be one thats about her personally, not Pakistan!

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