obituary;Eulogy for the Princess of East

Would it be an assassination too if Benazir binti Zulfikar Ali Bhutto were a man?  I don’t think so. I believed her tragic death has nothing to do with the battle of the sexes anymore because if that was the matter, Benazir should be killed about two decades ago when she won the Pakistani General Election to be its first female President. Although Pakistan’s extremists had publicly admitted they never accepted a female leader, somehow Benazir even made herself the top job twice!

 

The way that very evil man who killed her—he then bombed himself and others, the innocents, down—was just another proof to me how the former very influenced Asian nation has turned itself into the new jahilliyah state. Just days ago I read a report about the killings in the Pakistani mosque. That gruesome act was aimed to assassin a middle rank politician while the man was still praying his sholat in the crowded mosque. I was so amazed to read that news. I mean, Pakistan is the third most populous Muslim country after Indonesia and India, which capital is named Islamabad, but you can’t even take a peace, especially for doing your sholat, in its mosques? Ahhhh…, something very wrong must have happened there. Something that Brave Benazir would like to heal.

 

I knew very little about her but I think her decision to come home, leaving the comfort of rich and glittering Dubai shelter to take her chances which she must be known for sure, were very risky, is something to be admired. It took courage, and only special people, the bravest, could do it.

My deeply condolences…May you rest in peace, Miss Benazir.

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