Members of the Pakistan People's Party, supporters of Benazir Bhutto, are arrested outside her house in Islamabad after she was detained for 24 hours to prevent her attending a mass rally in Rawalpindi to protest emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf on November 3Photograph: Peter Beaumont/ObserverMembers of Pakistan's intelligence agencies watch on as tyres burn outside Benazir Bhutto's house in the F8 district of IslamabadPhotograph: Peter Beaumont/ObserverA woman supporter of Benazir Bhutto who tried to reach her during her containment on Friday November 9 in Islamabad is led away by women police officers who arrested her at the barricade blocking the way to her housePhotograph: Peter Beaumont/Observer
Benazir Bhutto is mobbed by media and PPP supporters outside the house of sacred chief justice of the supreme court Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry who she tried to visit to voice her support after almost a week of silence regarding his plight. Bhutto was blocked again by riot policePhotograph: Peter Beaumont/ObserverBenazir Bhutto addresses supporters outside the home of chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudry calling for his reinstatement for the first time. The chief justice was purged after a year long struggle with President Pervez Musharraf over issues ranging from corruption, illegal detentions and habeus corpusPhotograph: Peter Beaumont/ObserverPolice guard the house of Benazir Bhutto in Islamabad during her first detentionPhotograph: Peter Beaumont/ObserverPolice guard the house in Lahore on November 13 where Bhutto was staying prior to launching her long march through the Punjab. Issued with a seven day house detention order, senior police admitted that this time Bhutto was under arrest as she finally announced she could not work with MusharrafPhotograph: Peter Beaumont/ObserverPolice flee a burning car outside the house where Bhutto was subjected to her second period of detention to prevent her protest motorcade through the Punjab and up to IslamabadPhotograph: Peter Beaumont/ObserverSupporters of President Pervez Musharraf in Lahore attend a bridge opening festooned with images of the general who has twice ordered Bhutto's detentionPhotograph: Peter Beaumont/Observer
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