Benazir Bhutto - RIP

May she rest in peace - al-fatiha (moslem)

Benazir Bhutto, the eldest child of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953 at capital city of Pakistan, Karachi. Benazir Bhutto, the eldest child of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was born on June 21, 1953, at Karachi. She attended Lady Jennings Nursery School and then Convent of Jesus and Mary in Karachi. After two years of schooling at the Rawalpindi Presentation Convent, she was sent to the Jesus and Mary Convent at Murree. She passed her O-level examination at the age of 15. In April 1969, at age of 16,  she got admission in the U. S. at Harvard University's Radcliffe College. In June 1973, Benazir graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Political Science. After graduating from Harvard, Benazir joined Oxford University in the fall of 1973. Just before graduation, Benazir was elected to the Standing Committee of the most prestigious Oxford Union Debating Society.

In 1976, she graduated in P. P. E. (Politics, Philosophy and Economics). In the autumn of 1976, Benazir returned once again to Oxford to do a one-year postgraduate course. In January 1977, she was elected the President of the Oxford Union. Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in June 1977. She wanted to join the Foreign Service but her father wanted her to contest the Assembly election. As she was not yet of age, Benazir Bhutto assisted her father as an advisor.

She twice became the Premier of Pakistan, 1988-1990 and 1993-1994. During her second tenured, Benazir again faced trouble from the opposition. In the autumn of 1994, Nawaz Sharif led a "train march" from Karachi to Peshawar. This was followed by general strike on September 20. Two weeks later Nawaz Sharif called a "wheel jam" strike on October 11.

She was feted as a symbol of modernity and faught a long battle against corruption allegations. She has been killed in a suicide attack at an election rally. May she rest in peace. 

                                                        

What I've found interesting is how it seems that officers at the scene were clearing up the debris from the explosion, rather than cordening off the scene as a method of preserving what should be a murder scene. Obviously, people will claim resonsibility but that doesn't mean that the case should be closed. The actually culprit should be identified (did he actually die?) and his links should be ascertained.

Clues such as material used in the blast, clothing, and possible dna/fingerprinting from material left at the scene may assist in this endeavour.

It seems to me that the people who stand to gain from this killing are

a. The current incumbent
b. The Bush administration, who have benefited greatly from a dictator willing to accomodate their whim.