Benazir Bhutto's assassination came as a shock to most people despite frequent death threats & attempts on her life lately. Personally, I felt that the most tragic part of it all was when no one stepped near her SUV to get her medical aid for over 10 minutes after the bullets were pumped inside her & the suicide bomber had blown himself up. Not that it would have saved her life (AK47 bullets fired from close range hardly allow that), but the trauma of bleeding to one's death is of the worst kind.As expected, the blame game for her assassination has already started and so has the bloodbath in Pakistan. In the mean time Benazir's last rites have been performed and her 'will' has also been read. Benazir has named her 19-year old son Bilawal as her successor to party leadership of Pakistan's People party. This truly baffles me for two reasons. One - can you really name a successor to a 'political party' in your will? Shouldn't a party leader by 'elected' by party members? Two - does Bilawal have the maturity/knowledge to lead Pakistan's most influential political party and elections looming large?
And there we were - mourning the death of democracy in Pakistan ... a little prematurely, I suppose.
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3 comments:
Yes , now days evrything is inherited actor,politics,singer ,it has nothing to do with capability ;-)
Yeah, unfortunately u r right. Why else would we have the Gandhis or Bachchans? I dread the day we might hand over our legacy of IT to our kids ;)
Rightly said Vineeta... I had the same thing going in my mind as I was reading your comment!
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