Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Monday that she had ended talks with President General Pervez Musharraf as "he has not honored his commitments," according to local press reports.

 

Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto speaks to the media after praying at the tomb of Pakistan's national poet Allama Mohammad Iqbal during a visit to Lahore November 12, 2007.

 

Bhutto told reporters in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore that fair and transparent elections were not possible in the state of emergency and demanded lifting of emergency, restoration of the deposed chief justice and all other judges who did not take oath under the Provincial Constitutional Order (PCO).

 

On Nov. 3, Musharraf imposed emergence and suspended the constitution.

 

Bhutto said that she would go ahead with her plan of long march, scheduled to begin from Lahore Tuesday, saying that she discussed with party leaders about the long march plan.

 

The Punjab provincial government has banned public rallies and has said that it will strictly implement the ban.

 

The government blocked her rally in Rawalpindi near Islamabad last Friday.

 

Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto (R) prays with the mother of Zaheer Ahmed, a victim of the October 18 suicide attacks in Karachi, during her visit to Lahore November 12, 2007.

 

Bhutto claimed that around 5,000 of her party workers were arrested a few days before the rally in Rawalpindi.

 

(Xinhua News Agency November 13, 2007)