New Delhi: Four days after Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf declared Emergency in the country, protests grew across the nation.
In Lahore, dozens of lawyers came out and courted arrest, just a day after hundreds of lawyers were arrested.
In Islamabad, it was former Chief Justice Chaudhury who addressed lawyers via a telephone call telling them to continue demonstrations and uphold the country's original constitution.
Chaudhury has been under house arrest and his address ended when the mobile telephone network in his area was switched off by officials.
In Multan too lawyers and political activists pelted stones at policemen before they were led away to prison.
In Karachi, PPP activists were out on the streets to see off former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto who headed to Islamabad for meetings with pro-democracy activists.
Benazir plans to hold a big rally of her supporters in Rawalpindi, not far from the President's house, on Friday.
She says she will not meet Musharraf on her trip to the Pakistani Capital, and demanded he release all the lawyers and activists arrested so far.
"All political prisoners should be freed, the Election Commission should be reconstituted, and electoral reforms enforced so that we can have fair elections and the power should reside with the people,” she said.
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