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

Dad: [tag]Benazir Bhutto[/tag] 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 [tag]mohajirs[/tag], 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 [tag]Hindutva[/tag] 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.