LAHORE, DEC 30: A Pakistan court today ordered authorities to allow former prime minister Benazir Bhutto to travel abroad, after she was prevented from leaving the country on Monday, court sources said.The order was passed by a bench of the Lahore high court on a petition by Bhutto, who was stopped at the Karachi airport and prevented from travelling to Dubai to see her three children studying in the Gulf state.
Bhutto, who leads the main opposition Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was to leave for Dubai later today following the court order, party officials said.
The opposition leader and her jailed husband Asif Ali Zardari are currently on trial at two accountability benches of the high court in corruption cases initiated by the government.
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