{"id":204,"date":"2012-12-07T05:22:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T05:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2012-12-07T05:22:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T05:22:41","slug":"pakistan-arrests-opposition-leader-to-block-protests-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/pakistan-arrests-opposition-leader-to-block-protests-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Arrests Opposition Leader to Block Protests: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<!-- Post Body Copy -->\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/pics\/musho.busho.jpg\" alt=\"Musharaff, Bush, Pakistan, Masonic Gestures\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>Bloomberg News<br \/>\nMarch 15, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Arrests Opposition Leader to Block Protests<br \/>\nBy James Rupert and Farhan Sharif<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani police detained former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, blockaded highways and cities and put army troops on alert to break up a planned protest tomorrow in Islamabad. <\/p>\n<p>Police surrounded Sharif\u2019s home in Lahore, put him under house arrest for three days and detained scores of other leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League, said party spokesman Pervez Rashid. The government blockaded central Lahore and Islamabad, tightening its crackdown on nationwide protests to demand the restoration of dismissed judges who are supported by Sharif. <\/p>\n<p>President Asif Ali Zardari \u201cmay prevent us from protesting in Islamabad tomorrow, but we will simply re-organize and renew our protest in a few days,\u201d said Rai Muhammad Salim Raza Kharal, one of a few Muslim League activists who managed to reach the main rally venue in Lahore. Zardari \u201cwill face a long period of protest now,\u201d he said, shortly before police fired tear gas to disperse rock-throwing demonstrators nearby. <\/p>\n<p>Zardari\u2019s use of force to quell protest and growing dissent in his Pakistan Peoples Party, are \u201cdeepening his credibility deficit and leaving his government weaker,\u201d said Syed Khwaja Alqama, a political-science professor in the Punjab province city of Multan, the site of one of yesterday\u2019s biggest demonstrations. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100903064846\/http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=a5ZaQ_lnLo1Y&#038;refer=home\">Article Continues<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Pakistan%20Arrests%20Opposition%20Leader%20to%20Block%20Protests%3A%20Report\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg News March 15, 2009 Pakistan Arrests Opposition Leader to Block Protests By James Rupert and Farhan Sharif Pakistani police detained former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, blockaded highways and cities and put army troops on alert to break up a planned protest tomorrow in Islamabad. Police surrounded Sharif\u2019s home in<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Pakistan%20Arrests%20Opposition%20Leader%20to%20Block%20Protests%3A%20Report\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24,17,7,18,37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-democracy","category-freedom-of-speech","category-freemasons","category-islam","category-pakistan","category-pervez-musharraf",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}