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CNews PESHAWAR: Chief of Awami National League Sheikh Rashid has said on Saturday that government’s days are numbered and it will have to go.  Talking to media after condoling to federal minister Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilor on his mother death, Sheikh Rashid said present government was operating without any vision and direction.  Answering a question, he criticized the government’s current policies, adding on one hand it was signing peace pact with the militants while on the other hand they didn’t want to annoy the US also. Government’s present policies have led to many crises in the country, he noted. Rashid said, “Price hike, electricity, unemployment and many other issues have messed up the peoples lives.”

Benazir placed under house arrest (Details updated at 1215 and first updated at 940) ISLAMABAD: Former premier and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has been put under house arrest Friday, hours before she was due to lead a rally against a state of emergency, government officials said. "She is being placed under house arrest," a senior government official said on condition of anonymity. Nearly 200 police sealed off Bhutto's house in Islamabad with barbed wire and a magistrate went inside, apparently with the arrest order, hours before she was due to lead the demonstration in neighbouring Rawalpindi. A senior leader of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, senator Anwar Baig, said outside her house: "This is illegal confinement. This is illegal detention of a democratic leader." "We tried to convince Benazir Bhutto to cancel the rally but she did not agree, and we had no choice but to implement these restrictions," a senior police official said. The g...

CNews KARACHI: Federal Railway Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmad said that the political graph of Benazir Bhutto has been declined and she should not expect welcome like 1986.Talking to Geo News, Shaikh Rashid said that Benazir had tried to use Sindh card by choosing Karachi for her arrival. Rashid said that things have been changed and current situation of the country is different from that was in 1986. Benazir’s graph has been dropped and very few people left for Karachi from Rawalpindi to welcome Benazir Bhutto.Replying to a question, Rashid said that he had already predicted that Muttahida Qaumi Movement would be a part of future’s government.