Reply #11: Rooboy posted this about Imran Khan, on another thread of mine in LBN. [View All]

Bush visit 'prompts Imran Khan's house arrest'

For most of you DUers who don't follow cricket, Imran Khan is one of the sport's biggest legends. This would be something akin to putting Michael Jordan under house arrest (and that's not an exaggeration)

There are reports Pakistani police have placed opposition politician and former cricket legend Imran Khan under house arrest.

A spokeman for Mr Khan says the arrest comes ahead of a planned protest against the visit of US President George W Bush.

Saifullah Khan Nyazee, a spokesman for Mr Khan's Movement for Justice party told AFP, Mr Khan was leaving a friend's house in the early hours of Saturday when police served him with a detention order.

Mr Nyazee said police then drove Mr Khan to his house overlooking a lake near Islamabad and around a dozen policemen were standing guard to stop him leading the planned rally in nearby Rawalpindi.

Meanwhile anti-United States Islamist parties have promised more protests as Mr Bush prepares to round off a South Asian tour.

Mr Bush has been urging President General Pervez Musharraf to do more in the war on terrorism.

Mr Bush arrived in Islamabad a day after a suicide car bomber killed an American diplomat and two other people outside the US consulate in the southern city of Karachi.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1584045.htm

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