Adil Najam
Whatever her opponents may think of her, Benazir Bhutto was a most recognized and much-loved international figure. An icon in the best sense of the word. The shock of her death – and the manner of her death – was not confined to Pakistan. As comments on our earlier post suggests, in that moment, the entire world stopped in its tracks. It was not just the most tragic of moments, but also a most historic moment.
These are the pictures of the front pages from just a few newspapers from across the United States and across the world. They are but a fraction of the hundreds, possibly thousands, of newspaper front pages that mourned her death. They make a fitting tribute to a woman who served twice as Pakistan’s Prime Minister, but was also a global citizen in heart and in spirit.
Regular readers of ATP know our fascination with newspaper front pages, which we feature often as pictures in our political posts. But credit for this fine collection goes to the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) who have featured this collection (ATP added a few images) on SAJA Forum. My gratitude to them for this, please do visit the SAJA page where you can click on each of the front pages images for more detail in them. Additional images of international newspapers were found at another wonderful post here.
I can’t believe that the PPP is actually believing Al-Qaeda and Baitullah Masud when they say they had no part in BB’s assassination. It is , of course, what they want us Pakistanis to believe so that Musharraf’s govt. gets further destabilized. We all should really know better than to trust them….
“she used traditional political maneuvering to push aside her own mother “- Naved Haqqi
Nusrat Bhutto had lung cancer, but what many didn’t know was that she was also diagonosed with the Alzheimer’s disease as well, that was one of the reasons Benazir took charge of affairs.
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I agree its a loss but i do wonder how much though? As human, i am sad that someone died like this but beyond that, i am really not sure whether was Pakistan’s loss though. I tend to agree with CNN article “Bhutto failed to modernize Pakistan – http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/29/pakist an.commentary/index.html” by Irshad Manji. I lived in Pakistan during her rule and Nawaz’s, and don’t remember anything either of them did that make me remember them.
This is a great blog.