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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Pakistan puts ex-PM Sharif under house arrest AFP - 1 hour 31 minutes ago LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) - - Pakistan's main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif was put under house arrest Sunday in a bid to prevent him leading a protest march on the capital, flinging the country into deeper crisis. ADVERTISEMENT Police surrounded his villa in Lahore, the capital of his Punjab political heartland where the government imposed direct rule after a court on February 25 banned Sharif and his brother from contesting elections and holding office. Police said around 200 activists were seized in the city in pre-dawn raids, before lawyers and opposition party workers were to demonstrate in Lahore and march on Islamabad to demand the government reinstate sacked judges. "Sharif has been ordered not to leave his house in Lahore for three days," police officer Ijaz Ahmed told AFP. The former prime minister, who has emerged as the country's most popular political leader, has joined forces with lawyers pushing for President Asif Ali Zardari to reinstate judges deposed by ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf. Similar restrictions were imposed on other opposition leaders, including former cricket hero Imran Khan and the main religious party Jamaat-e-Islami chief, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, police said. But party officials said Khan and Ahmed managed to slip out secretly and were on their way to Islamabad. The massively unpopular Zardari came under huge US pressure to find a way out of his standoff with Sharif, and the house arrest is only likely to further enflame tensions in a country battling Taliban and Al-Qaeda extremists. Zardari, widower of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto, promised soon after his election in September that he would restore the sacked judges within one month but reneged on his pledge. Late Saturday, he held out concessions -- vowing to appeal the court ruling that barred Sharif from office and pledging that "restoration of judges would be resolved" in accordance with the principles of a charter of democracy. That document, signed by Sharif and Zardari's widow in 2006 promised to restore democracy, avoid confrontation and take the military out of politics. When pressed for details about when an appeal would be made or how the judiciary issue could be resolved, a spokesman for Zardari declined to answer. "People are determined to defy all restrictions imposed by this fascist government," said Shahbaz Sharif, brother of Nawaz Sharif and chief minister of Punjab until the Supreme Court disqualified him from office. "Let them arrest Nawaz Sharif, every citizen has become Nawaz Sharif today," Shahbaz said in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, just outside Islamabad. The government has imposed the worst crackdown of its time in power on activists planning to march on Islamabad to demand the judges' reinstatement. Protests have been banned and more than 1,000 activists detained. The government has blocked major roads and highways across the country with shipping containers and large trucks to quell the march. "They have sealed the entire country, transport is blocked... People should come out and foil their design because Pakistan demands its rights," said Shahbaz Sharif, telling people to "give a final push to the crumbling walls." Life was at a standstill in Lahore with roads deserted and a heavy police presence at key intersections and markets closed, witnesses said. Some 200 lawyers removed barbed wire and barricades to enter the Lahore high court from where the march was scheduled to start. "Police have impounded our buses, we have now decided to reach Islamabad by walking," Lahore lawyers association leader Muqtadar Akhtar Shabbir told AFP. The turmoil could not come at a worse time for the nuclear-armed Muslim nation, which is a central front in US President Barack Obama's fight against Islamist militancy and facing a wave of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence. Musharraf removed independent-minded chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and some 60 other judges in 2007, fearing that he would be declared ineligible to contest a presidential election while in military uniform. The move triggered a countrywide protest, spearheaded by lawyers, which ultimately forced Musharraf to quit in August 2008. 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