The assassination of Bhutto

I had just finished lunch while watching Cartman's antics on South Park when my phone rang. I was quite suspicious of the news my friend had to deliver and decided to check its truthfulness almost immediately. It was true. Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated an hour earlier.
With her public murder, Pakistan slips ino further turmoil and instability. The tentative and uncertain steps that it was taking towards another return to democracy has been cut short. While Bhutto's term as the premier of Pakistan was a highly controversial one (the dilettantish approach to the Kashmir issue, the corruption, the flirting with the Taliban), it must be said she was the face of a secular and moderate Islam. Islamist extremists have succesfully destroyed a symbol, as the Hindu rightly puts it while condemning the assasination, it is a "..despicable act by terrorists who made no secret of their loathing at the prospect of a progressive, secular woman emerging as Pakistan’s ruler".
New Delhi is shocked, but will still continue to sit on the fences. The political will, that is required to facilitate peace and stability in it's surroundings, is just lacking at the centre. Indians know what it means to lose a national leader and hence can understand the situation that the average Pakistani is in. We send you our condolences.

A video clip of one her last interviews.