Mohartama Benazir Bhutto

Adding to the long list of assassinations is the one of Benazir Bhutto .Coming second only to the murky murder of Bob Woolmer is her assassination…murky simply for the fact that there are too many probables who could have done this horrendous crime. If there is one sport where cowards win, we should call the sport terrorism. Her death is definitely not a surprise but a shocking revelation of how terrorism grows day by day. After an attempt at Karachi, at Rawalpindi terrorism has had the last laugh.

Benazir Bhutto was Pakistan’s only window to the liberal world,(President Musharraf is definitely not an option)the window has been finally shut due to a coward who tried to find answers by blowing himself up. Benazir tried to bridge the east-west divide in fundamentalist Pakistan. Not many of Pakistan’s daughters come out and take on their fellow countrymen but she did that and full credit to her gutsy persona. This daughter made her mother proud by becoming the country’s first woman Prime Minister. Refusal to give in was her strongest strength and also proved to be her Achilles heel as she was assassinated in spite of prior warnings. She was criticized for her accent and her inability to speak flawless Urdu….but to hell with that because scores of men idiolised her, supported her and were nevertheless inspired by her. Definitely no Fatwas for that. Her life was threatened but there she was addressing thousands of supporters and proving that she was indeed a “mass leader”. POLITICS IS A SOUP…SMELLS GOOD, BUT LEAVES A BITTER TASTE BEHIND. She understood this perfectly and was ready for the bitterness

Benazir Bhutto was a charismatic leader and followed her father’s footsteps literally. She might have had her previous terms as Prime Minister shrouded by corruption charges. But definitely her death will put Pakistan on the backfoot. Democracy and a dream of a secular Pakistan is definitely not on the New Year Resolution list of Pakistan in 2008.