My grandmother campaigned for the people's party in the 1950's. Her brothers and sisters worked ferociously for this party.
Benazir was a light in the darkness that is pakistan today.
Today Benazir is dead.
My heart is heavy with sorrow along with hundreds of millions of pakistanis and with the world. How it will recover from this, i dont know.
The only incident of similar magnitude that I can correlate this to is the assasination of JFK
If any American was alive at that time, they can understand what pakistanis are feeling right now.
Benazir Bhutto was to those of us from pakistan and of pakistan to be the most inspirational figure since her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was killed in 1970's.
Benazir spoke for the voice less masses of pakistanis.
In her stump speeches she would talk about, "Roti, kapra and makaan" translated to food, clothing and housing for all Pakistanis.
Although she was educated at Harvard, she was no elitist. Although she was wealthy, her hear was with the poor of her country.
She was a populist who believed in her country so much so that she was not afraid to live and campaign in the face of daily death threats.
Musharraf is not pakistan's leader. he never was. he is illegitimate.
If the US would just withdraw support, and let pakistanis have their own government. We are a moderate citizenry. Let us have our own leaders.