A senior Pakistani opposition leader, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, is under arrest accused of defaming the army. Mr Hashmi, the president of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD), was detained late on Wednesday night. He had earlier claimed to have received a letter from the country’s armed forces purportedly criticising President Musharraf’s role in the US-led “war on terror”. Mr Hashmi is one of the most outspoken critics of President Musharraf, an army general who seized power in a coup in 1999. Full Story