Benazir Bhutto Killed in an Attack

"I am seeing something major, a "Spectacular Attack" from the Al-Qaeda coming. In next few weeks or months.

The ISI/KSA/AlQaeda Triangle is behind this. We shall see in a few weeks or months."

You bet.......the only conspiracy I can see is coming from this evil nexus of ISI/AlQaeda/MMA ..... there could indeed be a race to grab the nukes by the Al Qaeda/ISI combine through the mayhem......

Re: # 486

Dude - this is pakiland... there is no point asking all these questions...

Somebody pointed out high-level political murders in india and elsewhere... in india - most such events have been investigated and prosecuted in open courts of law... gandhi murder - nathuram godse tried and convicted... indira murder - culprits tried and convicted ... Rajive murder - a bunch of people tried and convicted - warrant still out on the mastermind living in Jafna...

The case was thoroughly investigated and presented in open courts of law - no conspiracy theories, no hanky panky, no machinations...

Now let's look at pakiland... Liaqat dude murdered - no prosecution, nothing... Bhutto's judicial murder - no remedies... Zia murdered - no nothing... now BB murdered - the whole situation is being very actively covered up, confusion all around, basic procedures violated, common sense assulted, it's a mad house out there... even in this day and age of ever-present media and scrutiny - pakis have done everything to burry the truth - right under world's glare...

I mean - come on pakis...

Why was a post mortem not done?

Why was she burried within 24 hours?

Why is Zardari not speaking about it?

Why did her car went missing & then found?

Why was their blood if she only had a skull fracture?

Naheed & Sherry were with her & they saw blood & bullet wounds, why are they not taken seriously yet by western media?

Why did we washed the scene without our internal or external investogators ever seeing the evidence?

Is someone hiding something??

Do we yet know who killed ZIA?

Why were the top 17 generals were in the same plane against all protocol?

Do you know what Ojari Camp was all about??

Did a couple of nukes have changed hands in last 24-48 hands?

I am seeing something major, a "Spectacular Attack" from the Al-Qaeda coming. In next few weeks or months.

The ISI/KSA/AlQaeda Triangle is behind this. We shall see in a few weeks or months.

Are they two? The lastest pictures show the two guyz in inscrutable faces....

One was in-charge of shooting
Other was in-charge of suicide bombing.

That's why the left side of the car got damaged extensively.

Till now the picture was literally blocked out, esp after bombing. Now the full picture is coming out with the release of complete sequence of evens from a vantage point.

#476 Posted by bulleya on December 29, 2007 12:36:13 pm


then pakistan just might be about to hand its fate over to a 19 yr. old, who has lived most, if not all, of his life outside pakistan


Your fate is already in the hands of your army whose leadership lives, for all intents and purposes, outside pakistan..at least outside the pakistan most pakis know...

I Think Aitazaz Ahsen or Amin Fahim are the right people to lead Pakistan out of this mess, but surely they will not be given their chance & they may end up making new factions.

#481

Sir, I narrowed the field down to two - yet you want to narrow it down even further?!

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I came across the following comment on the current Washington Post article on BB, which reaffirms my belief that there is no end to the Desi ingenuity to profit under any circumstances.

For a fee of just 500 Euros (please, no dollars), Hassan Ali's Tourism and Foreign Exchange Agency will arrange cancellation of your confirmed air tickets and hotel reservations to/in Pakistan. Convenient locations in Detroit, Vienna, VA, Pasadena, CA, Houston, Brooklyn and Lackawanna, NY.

#480 We dont need a dynasty, no matter how sad BB's death.

Like they claim to have said during the sixties, never trust anyone over thirty!

That leaves Bilawal and - if you were to fudge-up the numbers a bit - even Manto.

may be Fatima and Bilawal should get married..they will form a great political team.

Besides, the old fossils have let the awaam down so badly so often - perhaps it is time to let in some brand new young blood!

#476 Bulleya

Yaar, you have to realize what miaN Mushy has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt:

Age has absolutely no correlation to wisdom. Sometimes, the older one gets - the dumber one gets - the process continuing, till one only cares about saving more and more of one's own ass.

"A senior official of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) told TIME late Saturday that the slain former prime minister's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, will likely be named as her political heir and the new party leader on Sunday." TIME Magazine....

...i had talked with a ppp leader two years ago, and asked him who the successor to benazir would be......he had told me that bilawal is being prepared......i had laughed it off and thought he was joking.....

......if there is an election today, one would asusme ppp would win due to benazir's sympathy vote, and nawaz's boycott.......

.....if the above report by Time is true, then pakistan just might be about to hand its fate over to a 19 yr. old, who has lived most, if not all, of his life outside pakistan......

people often ask why the army can always dominate the politicians.......the above is a good answer.....i really hope the above isn't true.....then, again, ppp is a feudal/pir party and this group needs the bhutto name to keep their feudalism and piri faqiri on top......

bilawal cannot become pm, i believe....as one has to be a certain age....he has an elder cousin (in her 20s) who is anti-benazir.....i assume she is probably eyeing the position also......

Sorry about the inadvertent double-posting due to hardware malfunction.

Excerpted from Irfan Husain's column in the Dawn.

A death foretold

By Irfan Husain

DAYS after he announced that elections would be held in a couple of months in 1977, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was asked by a western journalist how many terms he expected to win. That was a time when there was no political threat on the horizon, and Bhutto reigned supreme.

“I am not looking beyond the next term,” he replied. “The Bhutto men do not live very long.” Nor, it seems, do the Bhutto women. I did not use this particular quotation during Benazir’s lifetime as I thought it would have been insensitive.

Since she returned on Oct 18, I had feared that she would be the victim of an assassin. When the terrible attack on her cavalcade killed 150 of her followers, but spared her, I was relieved, but not reassured about her safety.

Over the years, I have written many articles critical of her policies and her conduct. But I never stopped respecting her as a person. Although some have accused her of arrogance, as a civil servant and a journalist, on every occasion we met, she was always warm and courteous to me.

Our last meeting was in Lahore about three weeks ago. I was there on a brief visit, and rang up my old friend Asma Jehangir, human rights lawyer and activist, to ask if I could drop by to say hello that evening. She replied that Benazir was coming over, and I should be there by nine.

When I arrived, I ran into many old friends. Asma had gathered a number of people from civil society to talk to the PPP leader and express their concerns. Benazir looked her usual supremely confident self as she walked in.

When she saw me, she stopped to greet me and ask how I was after all these years. Then she proceeded to give a brief talk in which she outlined her party’s priorities and goals. During the question-answer session, she was relaxed and, even when she disagreed with an observation or comment, she maintained her poise. There was no hesitation or attempt to dodge a tough question.

As she got up to leave, she stopped to chat with me again, thanking me for an article I had written on the eve of her return to Pakistan in which I had welcomed her back. Her last words were to ask me to see her in Karachi. This meeting did not take place, alas, as she hit the campaign trail, and I flew to England.

While I worked as a young deputy secretary on her father’s speech-writing staff in the mid-seventies, she was abroad, first in the US, and then in England. It was not until General Zia overthrew ZAB in 1977 that I first saw Benazir.

She was a slim, awkward-looking girl as she stood on the stage in Rawalpindi to address an opposition rally. Her first public speech was brief and hesitant, and her Urdu was frankly terrible.

Over the years, I heard her speaking in public many times, and she improved with each outing. On her return after years of self-exile, I noticed how much more fluent in Urdu she had become.

Many people have compared her unfavourably with her father, but I have always thought she was a much kinder and more humane person than ZAB. Indeed, her weakness as a prime minister lay in her inability to be tough with people when it was necessary. Margaret Thatcher, a politician Benazir admired greatly, never had this problem.

During her second stint as prime minister, Saeed Hasan Khan, the writer and raconteur, once told me he was sitting in the office of Tanveer Ahmed Khan, then information secretary to the government. The green (secure) telephone rang with the PM at the other end. Saeed Bhai heard his host say that he did not know who Mazdak was, and nor was he aware why he had started writing against her. End of conversation.

Those were the days when I was a civil servant, and wrote under the pseudonym of Mazdak. Benazir Bhutto was well aware of this, but never used her prerogative as prime minister to have me dismissed, or otherwise disciplined, even when I was very critical of her government in this newspaper.

Her father would have had no compunction in having an insubordinate civil servant sacked. As a matter of fact, he had many removed or suspended for far lesser sins.

For all these and many other reasons, I was sickened, saddened and angered at her assassination. It seems such a waste of so much potential. For years, there has been a concerted campaign to smear her reputation in the media and in the drawing rooms of the privileged of Pakistan. Orchestrated by intelligence agencies, it has resonated deeply among the chattering classes. As it is politically incorrect to openly support the army, the rich and the powerful have taken to talking down politicians and the political process. This justifies the presence of the army, and this in turn suits those whose only concern is the accumulation of wealth.

But talk to the dispossessed of Pakistan, and you soon discover the PPP’s true constituency. You will also find out why, despite the army’s best efforts over the years, the Bhutto name is such a force in Pakistani politics.

Many of her detractors among the well-to-do are of the view that Benazir was elected prime minister twice simply because she was ZAB’s daughter. This might have been true in the initial phase of her political career, but after the years she spent in jail and under house arrest under Zia, she had gained an independent stature.

One thing she shared with her father was his genuine concern for the poor. Unlike those who practise their politics in drawing rooms and military establishments, both Bhuttos spent much time with the dispossessed and the vulnerable. Neither achieved as much for them as they would have liked, as they were not given enough time by their many enemies.

Until recently, my brothers and I had three nurses to look after my mother who needs a certain amount of help in her old age. Two of them are Christian, and when I asked them whom they would vote for, both replied that they and their families always voted for the PPP.

While the rich hate the Bhuttos, the poor love them. This is the legacy Benazir Bhutto is leaving behind. May she rest in peace after all these years of adversity.

Excerpted from Irfan Husain's column in the Dawn.

A death foretold

By Irfan Husain

DAYS after he announced that elections would be held in a couple of months in 1977, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was asked by a western journalist how many terms he expected to win. That was a time when there was no political threat on the horizon, and Bhutto reigned supreme.

“I am not looking beyond the next term,” he replied. “The Bhutto men do not live very long.” Nor, it seems, do the Bhutto women. I did not use this particular quotation during Benazir’s lifetime as I thought it would have been insensitive.

Since she returned on Oct 18, I had feared that she would be the victim of an assassin. When the terrible attack on her cavalcade killed 150 of her followers, but spared her, I was relieved, but not reassured about her safety.

Over the years, I have written many articles critical of her policies and her conduct. But I never stopped respecting her as a person. Although some have accused her of arrogance, as a civil servant and a journalist, on every occasion we met, she was always warm and courteous to me.

Our last meeting was in Lahore about three weeks ago. I was there on a brief visit, and rang up my old friend Asma Jehangir, human rights lawyer and activist, to ask if I could drop by to say hello that evening. She replied that Benazir was coming over, and I should be there by nine.

When I arrived, I ran into many old friends. Asma had gathered a number of people from civil society to talk to the PPP leader and express their concerns. Benazir looked her usual supremely confident self as she walked in.

When she saw me, she stopped to greet me and ask how I was after all these years. Then she proceeded to give a brief talk in which she outlined her party’s priorities and goals. During the question-answer session, she was relaxed and, even when she disagreed with an observation or comment, she maintained her poise. There was no hesitation or attempt to dodge a tough question.

As she got up to leave, she stopped to chat with me again, thanking me for an article I had written on the eve of her return to Pakistan in which I had welcomed her back. Her last words were to ask me to see her in Karachi. This meeting did not take place, alas, as she hit the campaign trail, and I flew to England.

While I worked as a young deputy secretary on her father’s speech-writing staff in the mid-seventies, she was abroad, first in the US, and then in England. It was not until General Zia overthrew ZAB in 1977 that I first saw Benazir.

She was a slim, awkward-looking girl as she stood on the stage in Rawalpindi to address an opposition rally. Her first public speech was brief and hesitant, and her Urdu was frankly terrible.

Over the years, I heard her speaking in public many times, and she improved with each outing. On her return after years of self-exile, I noticed how much more fluent in Urdu she had become.

Many people have compared her unfavourably with her father, but I have always thought she was a much kinder and more humane person than ZAB. Indeed, her weakness as a prime minister lay in her inability to be tough with people when it was necessary. Margaret Thatcher, a politician Benazir admired greatly, never had this problem.

During her second stint as prime minister, Saeed Hasan Khan, the writer and raconteur, once told me he was sitting in the office of Tanveer Ahmed Khan, then information secretary to the government. The green (secure) telephone rang with the PM at the other end. Saeed Bhai heard his host say that he did not know who Mazdak was, and nor was he aware why he had started writing against her. End of conversation.

Those were the days when I was a civil servant, and wrote under the pseudonym of Mazdak. Benazir Bhutto was well aware of this, but never used her prerogative as prime minister to have me dismissed, or otherwise disciplined, even when I was very critical of her government in this newspaper.

Her father would have had no compunction in having an insubordinate civil servant sacked. As a matter of fact, he had many removed or suspended for far lesser sins.

For all these and many other reasons, I was sickened, saddened and angered at her assassination. It seems such a waste of so much potential. For years, there has been a concerted campaign to smear her reputation in the media and in the drawing rooms of the privileged of Pakistan. Orchestrated by intelligence agencies, it has resonated deeply among the chattering classes. As it is politically incorrect to openly support the army, the rich and the powerful have taken to talking down politicians and the political process. This justifies the presence of the army, and this in turn suits those whose only concern is the accumulation of wealth.

But talk to the dispossessed of Pakistan, and you soon discover the PPP’s true constituency. You will also find out why, despite the army’s best efforts over the years, the Bhutto name is such a force in Pakistani politics.

Many of her detractors among the well-to-do are of the view that Benazir was elected prime minister twice simply because she was ZAB’s daughter. This might have been true in the initial phase of her political career, but after the years she spent in jail and under house arrest under Zia, she had gained an independent stature.

One thing she shared with her father was his genuine concern for the poor. Unlike those who practise their politics in drawing rooms and military establishments, both Bhuttos spent much time with the dispossessed and the vulnerable. Neither achieved as much for them as they would have liked, as they were not given enough time by their many enemies.

Until recently, my brothers and I had three nurses to look after my mother who needs a certain amount of help in her old age. Two of them are Christian, and when I asked them whom they would vote for, both replied that they and their families always voted for the PPP.

While the rich hate the Bhuttos, the poor love them. This is the legacy Benazir Bhutto is leaving behind. May she rest in peace after all these years of adversity.