As I mentioned in one of my previous e-mails ( regarding Gul Jee ) that we are on a pursuit to eliminate people of a stature and international repute amongst us. Now Benazir Bhutto is slain as well. This tragedy has shook the entire world. To be very honest, due to my personal poor information and perhaps inspired by propaganda against her, I was baffled to see the wave of sympathy that poured in from the entire world over the killing of BB. No doubt she had the widest of the acclaim. She turned out to be not just another politician of a third world country but was one of the leading personality of the first rank politicians in the world.
BB on her arrival back to Pakistan, forgot one thing that she was entering a country run by able people like Musharraf during the last eight years. At the end of every military rule nation of Pakistan is rewarded with a new gift. At the end of Ayub-Yahya duo we were prized with severance of our East Wing, depressed nation and humiliated military. During the second part of this sequel spearheaded by our Momin Genaral, Zia-ul-Haq, we were rewarded with a multitude of blessings. The religious fanaticism, the Kalashnikov and drug culture, the rise of local-bodies-level politicians to the national stage, upsurge of ethnic and nationalist movements and above all the rendering Pakistan a status of an international pariah. Now the boon of the part three of this series, is deep dis-integration among the left over Pakistan along with new and improved carnage techniques of suicide bombing. Perhaps Benazir couldn’t comprehend the complexity of this phase. She was too much confident of her public support and missed the whole point that we are living in an era of enemies whom we don’t know.
Pakistan has turned out to be so much a complex country that after every unfortunate incident fingers are pointed in every direction. It starts with Tora Bora and Waziristan and ends all the way up to the president house. No body can be sure as who wanted what out of a particular tragedy. Sometime it is an irony that people sitting on opposite sides of this anti-extremist strife somehow are counter balancing each other in a benign manner. I am not necessary talking about any collusion but sometime events draw these tangents.
I particularly apologise for starting a speculation mill, however it is very tempting to ask following questions from the administration:
1: Why autopsy of the body was not performed? Asif Zardari can put a request but in a such high profile murder why govt would care about such a request?
2: Why the site of the blast was washed right after the incident. When a suicide attack took place against Musharraf back in Dec 2003, the whole area was cordoned for entire week to collect samples for forensic evaluation ?
3: Why it was so urgent for the government to bring up a new version for the cause of BB’s death? The story of hitting of lever of the vehicle’s sunroof when she ducked inside seems a very naive attempt by the administration to cool sentiments by eliminating bullet strike.
4: The translation of the the militant leader’s conversation with somebody doesn’t give a clue who they were talking about. The gender difference can appear when a Pushto speaking person talks in Urdu. How can they have this issue while speaking their own language Pashtu.
5: How administration was so sure that their marked target for phone bugging would definitely speak and will exchange greetings right on the day when govt needed it the most following the riots in the aftermath of BB’s assassination?
We need prayers for such a beautiful country whom ruthless power struggles has transformed into a complete mess
(more to come on this … )
