Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?

The audacity of politicians, especially Pakistani rulers, to think rest of the people as dumb and ignorant baffles me beyond any limit. I mean, agreed, we are mere mortals who live and breath towards bright and preferably, comfortable future. And they (Pakistani rulers) are more of, well, Darth Vader. So, yes, there are itsy-bitsy differences. But in no way we are this dumb. Yes, we like to believe in ‘Slam Dunks’ or ‘Mission Accomplishments’. Hell, we are even ready to believe that Mr. Musharaff is a peace dove (worthy of Peace Nobel!) and working incessantly towards eradicating Al-Quaida. But we ain’t going to believe that Al Qaida killed Benazir Bhutto.

I am ready to believe some unknown extra-terrestrial, traveled thousands of light years just to kill a horse look alike political leader of a failed state on the Earth. But for the love of all that is sweet in on the mother earth, don’t tell me that Musharaff didn’t kill Bhutto. Please. Please have some mercy on my common sense.

After all this verbatim the question remains, who killed Benazir Bhutto? Indians? They have vested interest in keeping Pakistan in turmoil. They could kill her and keep Pakistan away from stable democracy. Americans? May be. There is no ulterior motive here in killing her. But then Americans ain’t exactly known for taking pragmatic steps. Al-Quida? Possibly. They left the paid membership of Pakistan Fan Club some time ago. By keeping Pakistan in turmoil their Terrorist Universities will certainly have bigger freshman class this year.

But in all these above ‘line-up’ characters we are assuming that Benazir’s killers want Pakistan in turmoil. Isn’t it possible that the Killer(s) may actually want to eliminate possible choices of powers in Pakistan’s politics (notice that I am not mentioning Democracy anywhere)? Apart from Pakistani elite class and Army there is no one in this whole universe (including E.T’s!) who wants to rule Pakistan. First, it is an Islamic state. Second, it’s a failed state. Repeat these two sentences again and again and you will have Pakistan in making. Yes, people would like to control them. But that’s just to make sure that they don’t send home-grown Terrorist talent as a Christmas gift but that’s about it. This logic takes out India and Americans out of equation.

It is hard to comment anything on Al-Qaida. The demarcation lines between reality and myth, reality and what Americans wants world to believe is so thin and blurred that to comment on Al-Qaida is throwing darts in the dark. (I miss them all even in broad day light. But that’s beside the point!) More ever it is next to impossible to pin-point where Al-Qaida stops and Taliban begins or where both stop and ISI (Pakistan’s CIA) begins. But even under these circumstances we can safely say that Al-Qaida will be least interested in Benazir Bhutto. More pressing concern for them at this point of time (Apart from Americans burning their tails) is Musharaff. However half hearted attempt it might be but Musharaff and Pakistani army – the only patron saint of Talibans, under pressure from US, is definitely not making these terrorists life easier. If anything then this blatant betrayal makes Musharaff as numero-uno target of Al-Qaida & Co. So, this takes them out of line-up too.

And, it leaves us in a weird situation where there are no killers in this murder investigation. Hmm….perhaps, she is still alive and plotting to take over Pakistan! All righty, let’s come back to the three dimensional world.

Musharaff ran Pakistan for straight 8 years. Unhindered power makes people crave for more power. I mean, this isn’t a revelation. But lately Bush government in order to show something to their home voters started pressing Musharaff to transition power to the democracy. Now, Musharaff already listened to US once and sent guns towards Taliban, the same organization that his Army nurtured for years. His grand plan was to take over Afghanistan and keep India in check by maintaining large resource of militants. All these plans came down tumbling in post-September 11 geo-political scenario. But he stuck with pragmatic note and sided with powerful master. But it is too much for him now that US is forcing him from his power. He could take care of Nawaz Sharif but Benazir was getting out of hand. She first stuck secret deal with Musharaff in order to gain entry into the country. But after getting support from US, she conveniently tried to back-stab Musharaff. Of course, this guy is not only a seasoned dictator but he still has strong backing of Army and he had enough. Ka-boom!!!

Of course, all this is too obvious. Yet, media and political class across the nations are refusing to see the reality. It is not easy to accuse anyone even in normal criminal cases, lest that includes political figures. In any case, who cares of justice anyways. There is only one option left in Pakistan and everyone has to cling to him