After Bhutto

As usual there is a lot of sensationalism out in the media stirring embers to get the public anxious about the fate of country’s stability because of the assassination of an opposition leader. Critics will say this is not just an opposition leader, she continued in the footsteps of her father to bring “democracy” to the country.

Today, it looks like democracy does not mean that the country is going to get want it wants easily, Bhutto’s father was also assassinated an so was the first prime minister in the early fifties. It looks like we are powerless to curb the violence unleashed because of her untimely death but then again one has to understand that the leader had reawakened support from her countrymen when she decided to come back from self-exile.

To those who do not want to curb the military power currently running the country they have to respect the fact that the country should be allowed to work out its own affairs even though there may be tumult. She also lived in a region where assassinations seem to be the order of the day, it is sad to say. As it is the former prime minister realized the danger she faced when she returned to her country but decided on going back nonetheless.

She represented hope for a great deal of people who appear to be oppressed by the military and this seems to be the tip of the iceberg on the greater conflict there One may always wonder over the future stability of the country, which is supposed to be an American major ally against the spread of Taliban influence.

Then again I am sure one wondered about the stability in India after the assassination of the Gandhi clan. India is also a nuclear power and there is a deep-seated conflict between major religions in the region that we not always hear in the local news. The country survived the killings and its nuclear weaponry did not fall into the “wrong.” hands.

Similarly the assassination of Sadat in 1981 did not turn Egypt into a fundamentalist or autocratic state. So I think that the assassination is a sad event in Pakistani history it should not have happened as other assassinations of great statesmen should not have but people should have confidence in the ability of these nations to right themselves after some disruption that occurs now and then which we condone.