ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan's government has placed opposition leader Nawaz Sharif under house arrest to stop him taking part in an anti-government rally.Sharif's spokesman Pervez Rasheed says hundreds of police surrounded his house Sunday in the eastern city of Lahore. He says they showed Sharif aides a detention order stipulating Sharif was to be placed under house arrest for three days.
There was no immediate word from Pakistani authorities about the move.