Several Pakistan Opposition leaders detained

Ahead of Pakistan's October six Presidential poll in which Pervez Musharraf is seeking re-election, police detained several top opposition leaders as Premier Shaukat Aziz threatened to extend by one year the tenure of assemblies if lawmakers resign in protest against the General's second term.

Ahead of Pakistan’s October six Presidential poll in which Pervez Musharraf is seeking re-election, police detained several top opposition leaders as Premier Shaukat Aziz threatened to extend by one year the tenure of assemblies if lawmakers resign in protest against the General’s second term.

Several leaders of the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) headed by exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party were detained late last night as they planned to stage a demonstration outside the Supreme Court building here tomorrow against Musharraf’s bid to contest election in uniform.

Those detained included PML-N President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, party MP Tehmina Daultana and senior leader of the Islamic alliance Muthahida Majlis Amal (MMA) Hafiz Hussain Ahmed. They were served the detention orders at their apartments in Parliament Lodges here, officials said.

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Mohammad Aslam, another MMA member of National Assembly, lower house of Parliament, was picked up from his residence and taken to the Adiyala jail.

A police party raided the house of MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmed, but failed to arrest him as he had already left the place, ‘Dawn’ reported. Another police team tried to arrest Syed Mohammad Bilal, the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Islamabad.

Brig (retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema, an Interior Ministry spokesman, confirmed that the police raid took place, saying the government had taken the step to maintain law and order in the wake of a call by APDM to besiege the Supreme Court, which is expected to return a verdict on Tuesday on petitions against Musharraf’s re-election plans and his dual post of President and Army Chief.

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