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| Bhutto issues Pakistan ultimatum | Bhutto issues Pakistan ultimatum |
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| Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has issued what correspondents say is an ultimatum to President Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule. | Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has issued what correspondents say is an ultimatum to President Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule. |
| She repeated plans for a rally on Friday, despite an official ban, and called for a "long march" next week unless Gen Musharraf changed course. | |
| "I appeal to the people of Pakistan to come forward. We are under attack," she told journalists. | "I appeal to the people of Pakistan to come forward. We are under attack," she told journalists. |
| Gen Musharraf imposed emergency rule on Saturday after months of unrest. | Gen Musharraf imposed emergency rule on Saturday after months of unrest. |
| The authorities have warned that police will not allow Friday's demonstration in Rawalpindi, the country's main garrison town, to go ahead. | |
| The city's mayor, Javed Akhlas, said: "We will ensure that they don't violate the ban on rallies, and if they do it, the government will take action according to the law." | The city's mayor, Javed Akhlas, said: "We will ensure that they don't violate the ban on rallies, and if they do it, the government will take action according to the law." |
| He told the Associated Press there was a "strong threat" of another suicide bomb attack against Ms Bhutto, who survived an assassination attempt in Karachi on 18 October that killed more than 140 people. | |
| Key demands | |
| Ms Bhutto said if it was impossible to hold the rally in Rawalpindi it could be held in the eastern city of Lahore. | |
| She also called for a "long march" starting next Tuesday, 13 November, from Lahore to Islamabad, if her key demands were not met. | |
| The demands are: for the state of emergency to be called off; for General Musharraf to stand down as head of the army; and for elections to be held by mid-January. | |
| "How many people can they put behind bars? We will produce so many that they will not have enough jails," she said. |