Bhutto assassination
Before I put my thoughts I’d like to qualify that coming from India my views may not necessarily reflect the ground reality of Pak affairs.
IMO, somehow over the years the Military in Pak has come to enjoy an exessive power. Recent reports on CNN and few Indian media showed how Pakistan army is a pseudo corporation running various businesses in real sense of it especially business of real estate in the country. Pakistan army, as an establishment knows that it can continue to enjoy the power that it has become so used to, only by making sure that civic bodies are given a secondary status in the state matters (this is also the reason of why encouraging India bashing is its loved past time - but that is another issue altogether).
Mush’s decision to give up his uniform and take up a civil role and added to that the elections that held the promise of transforming Pak’s society radically with good hope on restoration of democracy had left the army worrying. I don’t think of all the candidates running for the PMship, anyone had a larger image than Ms. Bhutto. Thus to give a terrible setback to the radical transformation that was knocking the doors of Pakistan, Ms Bhutto was assassinated.
I believe that Mush had no role in this and Sharif is too meek to do anything of this sort. This leaves me wondering if Pak army had a major role in this by being the gloves of the hands of taliban like estalishments and I am sure it is not a wild conjecture.
To end this pondering, my condolences to the family of Ms Bhutto and the people of Pakistan.
A sombre video but you need to have patience of about 1 minute!
