London: Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto arrived at Karachi airport from Dubai Saturday after President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency, her spokesman in London said.   

"She's at Karachi airport. I spoke to her on the plane as it was taxiing. She doesn't know whether she will be allowed to get off, be arrested or deported," Wajid Hasan said by telephone.   

"She left Dubai when she heard about the state of emergency."   

A spokesman for Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in Dubai, Mohammed Farooqi, said earlier that the former premier had left the United Arab Emirates for her homeland.   

Musharraf declared a state of emergency Saturday, citing judicial interference in the business of government and the threat from Islamic militancy as the reason.   

Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan from eight years in exile on October 18, said earlier this week she had heard speculation that the president could take such a course.   

The 54-year-old warned the PPP and other opposition parties would not tolerate such a step.   

Bhutto was targeted by two suicide bombers on her return to Karachi last month in an attack that killed 139 people during her homecoming parade. She said rogue government officials were involved.   

It was the deadliest attack in a wave of Islamic militancy that has claimed the lives of more than 400 civilians and security personnel since government troops stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad in July

Source : DNA