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Conversations on Benazir Bhutto’s death

   Posted by: gargi   in Pakistan, Passing On

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I was returning home in the evening, stuck in a traffic jam somewhere near Andheri Subway, when dad rang.

Dad: Benazir Bhutto has been shot dead

Me: How ? ( i meant how would gunmen get past a security cordon… would she have the equivalent of Z level security)…. but it came out as how….

Dad: With a Gun - they killed her. Bast***s.

JD called next…..

JD: You Heard?

HC: Benazir?

JD: Yes. They shot her and then some suicide bomber blew the place up.. What a great story. (JD is a journalist and you need to forgive his ghoulish attitude towards news)

Next was K… a friend who is also a Sindhan.

K: Musharaff did it. He is the Modi of Pakistan. He can pretty much get away with murder.

HC: hmm..

K: I didn’t like her - that family was nasty to Sindhis, despite being Sindhi themselves.

HC: I had forgotten the Sindhi part…

The next was RM

RM - there are lots of people who hated her, the military, the mullahs, the mohajirs, Musharaf……..It could be anybody.

HC - or it could be everybody !

RM - no that is not possible. They like us more than they like each other…

HC - thats not really saying too much….

RM - No it isn’t and the Hindutva nutcases want the entire f***ing nutcases back…..

before he could launch into how screwed up the ‘Akhanda Bharat’ policy was, i reached home and rung off

At home the folks were tuned to the BBC - the news was official. She was dead. A gun man/men shot her multiple times and a suicide bomber blew himself up just to make sure. As I was registering the news, SR called from Kerala (he is holidaying there) -

SR : Is it true? Benazir has been blown up..

HC: Yes. I saw it on the BBC….

Benazir Bhutto - rest in peace. And hopefully, the people of Pakistan will be catalyzed by this to throw out the Mullahs, Musharaf and the Military and take back their country.

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3 comments so far

Distant Indian
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Why tune to the BBC? Don’t you have a national station you could trust?

December 29th, 2007 at 1:38 am
gargi
 2 

DD is not too bad… the private channels are patchy…… news television in india is mostly tabloid like….. they put out stories and then figure whether it is right or wrong or accurate or not….
for many parts of India - and abroad — they still rely on foreign feeds… so might as well go to the source…

December 29th, 2007 at 7:20 am
rehaan
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Benazir Bhutto (June 21, 1953 – December 27, 2007) was a

Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party a

centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman

elected to lead a Muslim state,[1] having twice been Prime Minister of

Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996).
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January 8th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

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