Pakistan police block Bhutto again

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters): Police blocked opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from visiting Pakistan's deposed chief justice on Saturday and President Pervez Musharraf resisted U.S. calls to end emergency rule.
Bhutto, herself kept under house arrest for most of Friday, tried to approach former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's home where he is being detained.
After imposing emergency rule and suspending the constitution a week ago citing a hostile judiciary and rising militancy, General Musharraf sacked most of the Supreme Court's judges and has since replaced them with more amenable ones.
"He is the chief justice, he is the real chief justice," Bhutto blared over a megaphone, demanding all the judges be reinstated.
Critics say army chief Musharraf imposed the emergency to get rid of the independent-minded Chaudhry and other top judges in a Supreme Court regarded as hostile to the president since he tried to dismiss Chaudhry in March.
The court was set to rule on challenges to Musharraf's October 6 presidential election victory, which might have been declared invalid as he stood for re-election while army chief.
Bhutto will defy Musharraf and go ahead with a pro-democracy motorcade from Lahore to Islamabad next week, after police scotched a protest by her Pakistan People's Party in the garrison town of Rawalpindi adjoining Islamabad on Friday.
On Friday, police used batons and teargas to break up small protests in several parts of the country, but demonstrations have been relatively small by Pakistani standards.