Bhutto Assassination Blog Posts

Pakistan's transition for democracy may be marred by the lack of a transnational leadership that can hold together the forces that threaten the unity of the federation.

Condi imagined a Bhutto-Musharraf dream team. It was Rice who convinced Bhutto to return to Pakistan and team up with Musharraf.

By opting for the realpolitik of dictatorship the west has not just repressed democracy but aided insurgency and terror. It has yielded no security benefit to anyone.

Are there enough top detectives left in London to race out the Strait of Hormuz and find out what really happened?

Musharraf has often spoken about restoring democracy to Pakistan. But as Bhutto texted me about one of his statements before her return to Pakistan: "What people say and what happens r two diff things."

Not only has he solved the whodunit of the death of Benazir Bhutto right there on 60 Minutes, he has also cleared up a persistent and troubling question of American history.

Pakistan reiterated Sunday that it will not let American forces hunt al-Qaida and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Washington w...

History indicates that Pakistan's governments have evaded or mishandled the search for truth in all major terrorist attacks and subsequent deaths, including those of heads of government and state and the Pakistan army.

The blood of a martyr is the best solution for the stains of corruption and misgoverning in the part of the world where I come from. Bhutto is assured a greater greatness in death.

Bhutto's assassination could be a setback to populist-democratic forces. But it also has the potential to mobilize strong backlash against the militarist and overly centralized paradigm of the Pakistani state.

This time the blowback price of our incessant meddling could prove quite high. Even Tom Hanks can't put a pretty face on that one.

Although General Musharraf has condemned this act of terrorism, he must be relieved at the removal of his most serious opponent who repeatedly questioned his legitimacy.

With all the bad things that happen in this world, lives lived like Benazir Bhutto lived hers are an inspiration to us all. In the long run courage always defeats hatred.

The media reaction to the turmoil in Pakistan is as illogical as it is predictable. Given yet another example of how the president's disastrous foreign policy has left us all less safe, we are suddenly being showered with analysis that takes as a given that Bush and those who agree with him -- or have enabled him -- are better at keeping us safe. It's the same nonsense that prevailed in 2004, and is rearing its ugly head again in the '08 race. Witness the rapidly congealing conventional wisdom that Bhutto's murder will help the campaigns of Rudy Giuliani -- who has left no daylight between himself and Bush on Iraq and foreign policy -- and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate who took the longest to distance herself from Bush. The ticking time bomb in Pakistan brings home -- once again -- what a tragic distraction Iraq has been from where the real danger lies. Isn't it beyond time we all got the message?

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Bhutto's stand against the religious extremists made her the only hope for more than one third of the electorate who strongly opposes Musharraf's policies, army rule and religious extremism.

When I first knew Benazir Bhutto, it was not as the larger than life 'Antigone' tragic figure she became but rather as a fellow undergraduate at Harvard College.

Pakistan's internal instability is not only unfavorable to the country, but also critical to the neighboring country Afghanistan. One of the direct effects of Pakistan's internal instability will be sensed in Afghanistan.

Bhutto's death has aggravated the spreading extremism across Pakistan and will destabilize the region, affecting Afghanistan, Iran and India. Any insurgency in the region will reverse all that has been done in Afghanistan.

Whereas some leaders send our young men and women to fight while they do aerial and virtual assessments, Benazir Bhutto put herself in peril on the ground to speak out against violence and terrorism.

Watching the pundits talk and the candidates spin, makes me realize that Pakistan is like the movie business: a real pro admits nobody knows anything.

Assassinations, beheadings and torture are once again familiar rituals and routinely used terms in our modern, evolved, supposedly enlightened culture.