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- WORLD, Page 66World NotesPAKISTANHer Day In Court
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- As an ashen-faced Benazir Bhutto sat in the judge's
- chambers, hundreds of her supporters last week ransacked the
- courtroom in Lahore, where she was about to go on trial for
- corruption and abuse of power. Dozens of people, including
- police, were hurt during the two-hour riot; at one point,
- Bhutto was pulled into the crowd and collapsed.
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- Government supporters and Bhutto partisans blamed each other
- for inciting the violence, which postponed the hearing into
- charges that the former Prime Minister sold
- government-protected land below market rates to a London firm
- possibly linked to a cousin. But if the protesters' goal was
- to delay proceedings until after parliamentary elections are
- held on Oct. 24, they were disappointed. Another hearing is
- scheduled for this week. If Bhutto is found guilty, she will
- be banned from running in the October elections and
- disqualified from holding office for up to seven years.
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