With all those French, Polish, Spanish and Swiss charges of money laundering against her, her 1.5 billion dollar assets and statements like "We will hand over AQ Khan to America" and "We will allow Americal troops to find Osama in Pakistan", Benazir was never my favourite. I never liked her coming back, I hated the NRO. But what happened yesterday never ever crossed my mind. The news had me moved quite a lot. Its another national tragedy in the history of Pakistani politics. Her father was hanged in the same city. The first Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan was assassinated in the same place as where she was addressing people, hence the name Liaqat Bagh (formerly it was called Company Bagh). And its not just her, so many other innocent lives that have gone waste, so many other lives that will be wasted in the coming days in protests. Pakistan has never been stable politically since its creation. Will it ever be? Its all a game of gaining power. Leaders killing, sacking, sending to exile each other. They shouldnt be called leaders by the way if it is just power that they strive for. And the common people, well they have never been a matter of interest at higher levels.
People responsible for her assassination can possibly be:
*The Chaudhrys and the remains of Zia ul Haq as she had said herself that they wanted her removed. (In which the government administration stands responsible too...how did the assassin manage to get through the security gates with weapons and bomb unnoticed? In that case it all seems pre planned)
*The family of her brother Mir Murtaza, who believed that she was responsible for Murtaza's killing.
*Islamic millitants who might have wanted her removed because of her pro American views.
*Other anti Pakistani forces who wanted to destabilise the country even more.
Will we ever be able to stop this blood shed? Will the transfer of power be ever smooth in Pakistan? I think Pakistan needs a complete revolution. Thats the only solution. A strong dedicated person taking over everything and putting the country on the right path.
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Perhaps as an Indian I should refrain from making this comment, but I just have to say this:
by saying this:
A strong dedicated person taking over everything and putting the country on the right path.
you seem to suggest dictatorship again. But given the dismally low success rate of dictatorship all over the world throughout history, do you still feel that one man/woman alone should be given all the power?
Well I dont see any other instant solution. The people here are used to driven like a cattle. I mean who on earth would support a proven-corrupt-leader. A leader who before even coming to power talks of letting the foreign army invade the country. It seems that people dont realise who there leader should be.
In such case a revolution seems to be the only way. The other soultion can be: every common man coming on the front line. Getting educated, realising the country's problems, identifying the correct leader and pulling the root of corruption from society. And honestly speaking that seems very unlikely. 60 years havent done anything. What can the coming years can. Or else it will take ages for such a thing to happen.
That is why I suggested what you are saying 'dictatorship'. Im quite aware of a feeling of terror and bloodshed and tyranny associated with the very word but words are defined by humans, by their actions, and thus can be redefined. Ideally there can be an honest man, stopping all bad thing going on in the country by force and inducing good things.
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