Lately no news coming out of Pakistan seem to be good news. This afternoon I started writing about Benazir’s return in lighter words focusing on hilarious statements coming out of our politicians on her return and then this horrific news of scores of people dead started coming in. My lighter mood vanished totally and now I am left wihout words and more questions like, Why? Who? what now? etc.
The headline news on CNN reads as follows right now:
An explosion near the motorcade of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed at least 110 people and injured 200 more, officials say. Bhutto, returning after years in exile, reportedly was unhurt.
While we are glad that she remained safe, our sincere prayers are with those innocents who lost their lives.
zabt laazim hai magar dukh hai qayamat ka
zalim ab ke bhi na roay ga to mar jaaye ga
If we analyse the press conference of BB, we come to the conclusion as from A to Z it was nothing but an smiling
Siassi Bakwas !!! yet another example of Goebels’s farce.
I am also surprised by 4 group theories put by BB. How she knows that 4 groups are involved and collaborated.
I am not balming BB for attach but she is insensitive to the death of poor party workers as well as mentally ill.
As for Zardari, he was beaten-up by ISI officer in Landhi jail thats why he is blaming ISI.
I agree with Raza Rumi. I am apalled at some of the comments here.
- I am no fan of BB, but I am still heartsick about what happened yesterday.
- The fact that hundreds of thousands turned out to welcome her should give us pontificating “intellectuals” pause. And this was not a “rent-a-crowd”.
- I, for one, am glad that she is back. I thought her press conference today was composed and dignified.
-If you don’t like her, just don’t vote for her, rather than wishing her dead.
Benazir Bhutto is “dying” to become proime minister of Pakistan no matter how many actually die.
She is greedy. Shaking hands with the military dictator is quite contarary to what her father died for. And she is trying to pleas the west so much so that she will have no trouble allowing the foreign forces bomb inside Pakistan.
Musharraf will look like the best thing that ever happen to Pakistan if she gets elected (God forbid).
Nails
Ethical Journalism requires that the salient truths surrounding yesterday be high-lighted:
1. Benazir Bhutto chose to lead an ’80’s style “opposition” procession through Karachi even though she has been officially chosen by America as the next neo-colonial corrupt puppet-tinpot .
2. She also deliberately chose to expose her “supporters” to the ubiquitous suicide-bomber whilst herself comfortably sitting in the belly of her truck.
3. Benazir Bhutto has vast experience in “cashing” in on the rather ignominious deaths of her father and two brothers
4. The suicide-bomber gave a warning blast which allowed Benazir Bhutto to run inside the back of the truck before the real thing came five minutes later ( enough time to hide eh?)
5. Benazir Bhutto has not shown any remorse for the deaths of her supporters nor any acknowledgement of her role in it .
6. The statements that have been coming out of Benazir Bhutto and her retarded husband Asif Zardari have been attributional and hilarious . Whilst Asif Zardari hallucinates that Al-Qaeda does not exist and Benazir has concocted her own fantasy about an alliance between “four” groups. In her press statement Benazir claimed
“There was one suicide squad from the Taleban elements, one suicide squad from al-Qaeda, one suicide squad from Pakistani Taleban and a fourth — a group — I believe from Karachi,”
Now if one is to believe this over-simplified propaganda, one can only conclude that the Mohtarma has become mentally ill after yesterday’s blast by hypothesising that the MQM and Taliban have joined hands.
Patriotic Pakistanis would want Benazir dead than be given another opportunity to destroy Pakistan. But I do not see any moral problem with that.
Even her erstwhile masters in America will soon learn that she is too corrupt and inefficient to catch her brother Murtaza’s killers let alone Osama Bin Laden .
How does then that prevent Benazir Bhutto from being pointedly targeted instead of her poor party workers who became the victims?
In Benazir’s last stint in office there were 10000 deaths including that of Murtaza, custodial murder was perfected into an art form by Nasirulla Babar who vulgarly celebrated and danced after each murder in Karachi and even burial was not allowed for the victims of extra-judicial killings.
Mentally, it appears that Benazir Bhutto is still living in the ‘90′ when she could indulge in Jurassic corruption and then blame “four groups” for her crimes or perhaps the ’70’s when her family practised a policy of systematic rape of the womenfolk of opposition politicians with whom the “champion of Democracy” is now seeking friendship.
America’s puppets nowadays can rarely venture outside Kabul or the Green Zone. I think Benazir Bhutto will learn that soon.
All signs of conciousness are dead in the hearts and minds of people who dwell on conspiracy theories. Facts are before you, people dead all for being in a procession. My sympathies with the victims and their families and my curses to who ever is responsible. Instead of playing the game of blame let us try and help those effected and push for a legitimate investigation into this matter. Leave the drama for the movies and your tears for the people.
I haven’t read all the comments, so forgive me if someone has already noted this! Princess is complaining about no street lights at the blast location, has it ever occurred to her that that’s how 90% of the streets in Pakistan are, even in the days when she was prime minister peoples’ lives weren’t any safer. Either she is totally ignorant about the conditions of Pakistanis or she just simply doesn’t give a damn about it and thinks all the places in Pakistan are like Clifton. She and other in politics think that their lives worth more than anyone else’s. By the way, we only have ourselves to blame who find time, away from their families, education and businesses, to go to these 10 hour long pathetic processions. Thought I’d shared my two cents!
raza:
you say we should condemn this attack and the attackers…yes we should…but what good will this condemnation on the web would do to alter the situation on the ground there except perhaps to placate ourselves a little?
yes the attack was dastardly, regressive, un-islamic and disruptive and could have been carried out by the militants, pinky’s political opponents, agencies or some aggrieved person or party
and it was acoming
she knew it…the government knew it…the media knew it
what did they do about it?
* she inisted in not delaying her trip because she gave out her “word” ( let us see if she gains power again what her words to provide ‘roti,kapra, makaan, and kaam’ would stand the scrutiny)
* the government warned her, passed her intelligence and provided as much security as it could ( of course there is never enough security that can be provided)
* and the media - well they were out in full force covering the ‘tamasha’ for their viewers