Lahore - Police in Pakistan yesterday prevented a pro-democracy rally called to start a campaign against military rule, confining politicians to their homes and arresting scores of activists, witnesses said.
Political sources said that more than 100 activists had been arrested in Lahore, capital of the populous Punjab province, while trying to organise marches to the site of the banned rally.
The self-exiled former prime minister, Ms Benazir Bhutto, complained of "a forcible denial of liberty" in Pakistan and the country's main human rights group accused police of high-handedness.