ISLAMABAD, May 25: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has welcomed the annual Amnesty International’s human rights report which exposed “how the present regime used war on terror to arrest political protesters”. In its report on ‘South Asia in 2004’ released on Wednesday, the Amnesty International said Pakistan’s military-led government used emergency powers aimed at combating terrorism to arrest journalists and political protesters.

It also noted continued violence against women including a spate of “honour killings” approved by quasi-judicial tribal councils.

Ms Bhutto said the report would help focus attention on the human rights crime being committed in Pakistan.