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