Bhutto No More!

As the world condemns Benazir Bhutto's death, Pakistan burns in flames. How ironic it is that as soon as some popular figure passes, we always tend to remember or are reminded of only the compassionate side of the person. The media's obsession with the deceased person's supporters also helps to build a positive light on the deceased. Regardless of how much the person was hated while on earth, that very person, when dead, seems to enjoy elevated love and sympathy.

the fact that Bhutto was assassinated washes off some of her questionable records in the past. Let's take for instance the situation when she was relieved from the duty of the prime minister twice because of corruption charges. During both her power grabs, her husband was continuously involved in controversial cases of having misused the state funds. None of these charges were proven in court, but as a prime minister, there are ways to get around the court conviction.

It was her foolishness for having gone into the masses to campaign for democracy and freedom, when her life itself was on questionable security. Apparently she was never promised nor provided adequate security by the military government. For someone who thinks of herself as the only person that can restore credibility and democracy in Pakistan, she undermined Pakistan's need of the hour by going into unprotected grounds in public. If she was the only remaining hope for Pakistan as she claimed, then the person to be blamed for taking away the hope for Pakistan has to be none other than Benazir Bhutto.