THE 4th BHUTTO ASSASSINATION IS A MESSAGE TO THE USA.
HANDS OFF PAKISTAN!
Who did it?
Like the Kennedy’s in America, and the Nehrus in India, the Bhutto’s have a propensity to get in front of the murderers. Like the Kennedys more than three of the Bhuttos have died an unceremonious death. Like the Nehrus in India more than 3 of them have been murdered. The Bhuttos are one of Pakistan’s most illustrious families. Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto was the father of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. His claim to fame was to create the province of Sindh, separating it from the Bombay presidency. This is a list of the Bhutto family.
- Zulfiqar.Ali. Bhutto; Judicial murder by US supported General Zia
- Shahnawaz Bhutto junior. Poisoned in drug overdose in France during Zia’s tenure
- Murtaza Bhutto: shot dead in Karachi during the tenure of Benazir Bhutto
- Benazir Bhutto: Shot dead on December 27th, 2007 during the reign of President Musharraf.
Ominously, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at the same spot where the first Pakistani Prime-Minister Liaqat Ali Khan was shot dead.
The assassination or the death of an American leader is a sad affair. Strangely enough the assassination of a Pakistani leader in most American minds spells “instability”.
THE 1st ASSASSINATION OF DEMOCRACY IN RAWALPINDI
Liaqat Ali Khan was killed in broad daylight in Rawalpindi. This is what Zeba Zubair in Mutiny to Mountbatten says about the assassination:
“On 16 October 1951 at a Public Meeting in Rawalpindi, ‘a blind shot from the blue’ silenced the voice of Quaid-e-Millat, Nawabzadah Liaqat Ali Khan. Another epoch of history was at an end. On a sad day for this new nation it was as if a mighty powe in heaven was also reacting in anger at the cowardly act of mankind. The sky of Karachi had a peculiar and ominous orange-yellow colouring and the people felt resltell at the starnge weather…”
This is what the Daily dawn of October 17th, 1951 said:
‘With the kalima on his lips, Liaqat , Successor of the Quaid-e-Azam Prime Minister. Leader unparalleled, is dead. The man who killed him was not just an individual he was the symbol of that deadly enmity of the enemies of Islam who have always wanted to destroy Pakistan. We name only one but we feel this in our heart with the certain flash and convinced truth. We grieve for Liaqat–martyr to Pakistan and Islam; but we proclaim over Liaqat’s still unburied body: Pakistan shall live, and whoever of her servants may fall in her service, this citadel of Islam guarded by 70 million worshippers of Allah will never fall. Begum Liaqat, Ashraf and Akbar, we shall not try to console you in your grief in consolable, but know this, that you beloved husband and father had died in glory and as comes only to the chosen of God. Pakistan Zindabad (Dawn Editorial, 17 October, 1951)”
Even in his last moments he was thinking of his nation. Other then remembering God and reciting the kalima, his last words were “Allah Pakistan ko apni amaan mai~n rakhay “(God save Pakistan). Every Pakistani of that generation absolutely remembers where he was and what he was doing when that fatal shot was announced on Radio Pakistan. Every patriotic Pakistani cried that day.
Yesterday a similar fate ended the life of Benazir Bhutto. There are a lot of questions and very few answers.
The 2nd Rawalpindi Assassination.
THE PPP OF Z.A. BHUTTO WAS A DIFFERENT PPP: The youngest Foreign Minister of Pakistan, the mercurial Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was building Pakistani bridges with China. He wanted to close the US base in Pakistan, which he succeed in doing. President Johnson told President Ayub Khan ”Bhutto must Go! Bhutto must Go!”. Soon thereafter Bhutto resigned a created the Pakistan Peoples Party. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was threatened by Henry Kissinger that if he did not cease and desist in pursuing Nuclear weapons, “a horrible example would be made of him”. Ironically Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged by General Zia ul Haq, a General supported by the USA for more than a decade.
The 3rd Rawalpindi Assassination
BENAZIR’S PPP WAS “MADE IN THE USA”: After hiring a high powered lobbying firm in Washington, the transformation of the “Daughter of the East” to the “Daughter of the Dollar” was completed this year. Benazir made a lot of enemies in Pakistan by declaring that she would allow access to A.Q. Khan and that she would allow US forces into Pakistan. Her popularity plummeted after these and other similar comments which were construed as unpatriotic by most Pakistanis.
I have to start off with my recent perceptions of her. She was a corrupt politician who was more interested in her political legacy than in the welfare of her nation and people. President Bush said today that Bhutto was someone who fought against terrorism. She did so, conveniently, post 9-11. During the mid 1990s she was openly pro-Taliban as the Pakistani government was one of the few nations in the world that recognized that neo-Khawarij regime.
“I am disgusted with the US media. Their coverage of Bhutto as some sort of martyr is despicable and inappropriate. Man, she really did a good job of portraying herself as some sort of beacon of hope for Pakistan. This woman was liable to be arrested at any moment by Interpol because of all the money laundering she and her husband were involved in with 3 to 4 different countries. She was a crook, plain and simple, yet our wonderful press is making her out to be the next Mother Teresa. This is like if Michael Vick was trying to run for Senator of Georgia ten years from now and then he was murdered and all anyone was talking about was how great a football player he was without any mention of his dog fighting crimes. This is so Orwellian”
Omar Sobhani: Boston University
MESSAGE TO THE USA: “HANDS OFF PAKISTAN“:
The repercussions from this assassination have rippled across the globe. Clearly Benazir Bhutto was America’s woman in Pakistan. Those who assassinated her have sent a message to the USA. Who sent this message? Was this a reaction to the American efforts of removing President Musharraf?
It is doubtful that the army or the agencies were involved because they could have controlled her actions even if she became Prime Minister. Her assignation was probably the work of Al-Qaida which sent a message to Pakistan and the USA that Pakistan cannot be run by American stooges.
THE ZIA MODEL WITH A TWIST: HER ASSASSINATION WAS PRE-PLANNED: THE CIA connection…
In the 1980s, President Zia ul Haq was blown up in a military plane and Benazir Bhutto became the Prime Minister.
The US Administration did not trust President Musharraf anymore. He was considered too independent and was considered conspiring for the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Several attempts were made to assassinate President Musharraf. Many analysts believe that the CIA looked up the right page from the playbook on foreign assassinations. President Karzai with Indian and American backing threatened Pakistan on many occasions with retaliation for the so called “cross-border” activity in Afghanistan. The CIA wanted to eliminate President Musharraf and then get a more amenable leader in office in Islamabad. The theory circulating in some of the most prestigious media sources goes as follows.
While President Musharraf was visiting the USA, the American administration was conspiring to fire him and get a more docile and subservient leader in office in Islamabad. A media campaign was unleashed to discredit President Musharraf. The CIA was been pushing for regime change and considered the sycophantic, obsequies Benazir as the obvious choice. The Red Mosque issue was created with elements of the Baluchistan Liberation Army a relic of the Cold War and Afghan mercenaries.
Tons of money was sent to Pakistan for a well organized campaign to launch street demonstrations against President Musharraf. As in 1979, during the PNA demonstration millions of Dollars were dispersed among professional agitators. Uzbek and Tajiks were recruited to create mayhem in Pakistan.
The CIA planned to send Benazir Bhutto to Pakistan and then assassinate her. President Karzai the former representative of Conoco would be the point man in Pakistan. Mr. Karzai would visit Pakistan to ensure that all plans were being executed properly.
The media would then be unleashed about the so called “instability” in Pakistan creating a justification for continued and more abrasive offensive action in South Asia. This to create instability in Pakistan that will be used as an excuse to continue the perpetual mimetic warfare in the Muslim world. Pakistan has been facing the brunt of the US initiative to implement “Democracy” in Pakistan even though the credentials of the champions of democracy are very weak. Neither Egypt, nor Uganda, nor Congo, nor Haiti, nor Taiwan, nor China nor Israel nor Russia face the US medias pontification on how great democracy is.
SHORT TERM REPERCUSSIONS
The short term repercussions are that this murder will impact the general election in Pakistan and the USA and creates new political realities. Who will lead the Pakistan Peoples Party? Benazir Bhutto had run the party like her personal fiefdom and drummed out all the founding members of the party who were friends of her father.
Clinton and Republicans John McCain and Rudolph W. Giuliani are seen by Iowa and New Hampshire voters as having the best credentials to deal with national security issues.
In Iowa, Clinton is trying to focus voter attention on the job of the presidency, hoping to heighten that advantage.
The New York senator named her final trip through the state before Thursday’s caucuses “Big Challenges, Real Solutions: Time to Pick a President Tour” — an attempt to shift the discussion away from whether she is likable, the one quality in which she lags behind her chief rivals
“With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto today, the world once again is reminded of the dangers facing those who pursue democracy and free elections in Pakistan and elsewhere in areas that are rife with conflict and violence and extremism and anti-democratic forces at work,” Clinton said. She said later that the events in Pakistan “are a stark reminder of how important it is for as many Iowans as possible to be part of charting our country’s future.” L.A. Times Dec. 27th, 2007
LONG TERM REPERCUSSIONS:
The long term repercussions on Pakistani politics are minimal. The PPP will sill be run by the Bhutto family is some ways. Benazir’s children will probably step into the vacuum and begin leading the party.
IRANIAN TYPE OF REVOLUTION IN PAKISTAN? American meddling in Pakistan could lead to an Iranian type of revolution? Positively not! Islamic parties in Pakistan control less than 10% of the vote block as opposed to a large following in Shia Iran. The PPP and the PML are both mainstream secular parties which have popular support in urban and rural Pakistani politics.
PAKISTANI NUCLEAR WEAPONS: This is a Neocon Red herring and deeply insulting to Pakistanis of all persuasions. This discussion is counterproductive to Pakistani-American friendly relations. (See article on Pakistani reaction to American forces trying to take out Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons) The Nuclear weapons are safe in the hands of the army as they have always been. The speculation the American press is to create perpetual mimetic warfare and plays into the hands of those who are expecting the USA to lead a “Crusade” against all Muslims.
THE SOLUTION TO THE STABILITY OF PAKISTAN: The answer is a massive Marshall Plan for Pakistan
WAS THE ASSASSINATION UNAVOIDABLE? In the face of Al-Qaida threats to Benazir and Musharraf, President Musharraf had banned open rallies. However, Benazir Bhutto swore to break that ban and insisted on holding open rallies, with her own security.
WHO KILLED BHUTTO? Al-Qaida brags about the assissination.
“We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat mujahideen.” These were the words of al-Qaeda’s top commander for Afghanistan operations and spokesperson Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, immediately after the attack that claimed the life of Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto on Thursday (December 27).
“This is our first major victory against those [eg, Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf] who have been siding with infidels [the West] in a fight against al-Qaeda and declared a war against mujahideen,” Mustafa told Asia Times Online by telephone. Asia Times online
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