From: zabdi@bucknell.edu (Zakir Abdi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Bhutto Plans Another March......
Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:38:11 GMT
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	Dear netters,


	ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto,
undeterred by her arrest and 30-day banishment from the capital for
demonstrating against the administration, announced Thursday she would
lead another protest march in a bid to bring down the government of
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
	Bhutto told a news conference Thursday in Karachi she would fly to
the nothern city of Peshawar and join a protest march Friday from the
town of Nowshera in the North West Frontier Province to the border with
Punjab Province.
	The government expelled Bhutto from Islamabad Wednesday after she
broke through police barricades and barbed wire to lead a rally into the
capital's nearby sister city of Rawalpindi.
	She was ordered not to enter Islamabad or Punjab Province for one
month. Three people were killed and hundreds injured when police and
paramilitary troops used force to stop opposition supporters from
marching to Islamabad from Rawalpindi.
	``I salute the heroic people of Pakistan for their courage in backing
the protest march,'' Bhutto said. ``The government must go, as the
county needs change.''
	Also Thursday, the provincial government in Karachi enforced a ban on
gatherings of more than five people and the carrying weapons in the
city.
	In Islamabad, retired Air Marshal Asghar Khan, a senior leader of the
opposition People's Democratic Alliance, said the group had changed its
strategy.
	``Instead of a head-on collision with police like the last two days,
we will now try to spread out our movements,'' he said. ``We are now
organizing hundreds of small rallies and processions in every important
city or town.''
	But Khan said the opposition would try for a ``major protest march to
Islamabad Saturday.''
	In Islamabad, police turned their wrath on the journalists covering
the opposition's protest. They beat up a prominent woman columnist,
Marian Babar, outside Khan's residence Thursday and attacked four more
reporters in Rawalpindi.
	The police also arrested five journalists Wednesday. Four of them
worked for Bhutto's party newspaper Daily Musawat and the fifth was
associated with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
	The police arrested all the 12 members of the commission's monitoring
group, which came from Lahore to observe whether there would be any
violations of human rights during the opposition's protest.
	After 24 hours in police lock-up in Islamabad the human rights
activists were shifted to the Adyala prison in Rawalpindi.
	In Rawalpindi, police and opposition protesters engaged in hide-and-
seek battles throughout the afternoon Thursday. The police stopped all
traffic on Murree Road, the main highway linking the city with the rest
of the country, for more than two hours in a bid to control the
demonstrations.
	Several protesters were injured when police fired tear gas shells at
them and charged small groups who staged hit-and-run attacks on the
authorities, jumping from alleyways to pelt them with stones before
dispersing. Several police officers also were injured.
	An opposition spokesman said police Thursday arrested 200 activists
from Rawalpindi.
	Bhutto vowed to continue her struggle when she arrived early Thursday
in Karachi from Islamabad.
	``The government is morally finished,'' she said. ``The freedom-
loving people of Pakistan have triumphed and we will continue our
struggle to bring down the government.''
	Federal Education Minister Fakhar Imam told reporters Thursday in
Islamabad that Bhutto's mother Begum was under treatment at a government
guest house about 55 miles from Lahore.
	An opposition spokesman said Bhutto's mother was wounded when police
fired rifle shots at her vehicle while she was leading a protest march
Wednesday from Lahore to Islamabad.
	Imam denied the opposition's claim but confirmed that she was under
medical treatment.


	Khuda Hafiz

	Zakir Abdi