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A Spade of course is a Spade
by Sameer B. Maganji on Jan 17, 2008 06:40 AM

Mr. Francois Goutier, Yes we all do know that Benazir was never a pro-indian. Infact she was quite the opposite. The pain is not about her death, but about the loss of the little hope that millions of innnocent Pakistanis nurtured with her participating in the elections. It is about humanity and not about how will India gain or loose because of her presence. This situation with India having neighbours like Pakistan will always remain with or without Benazir. I can never imagine Pakistanis, Afghanistanis, etc ever raising to such a modern thinking for the larger interest of the region to ever unite and be called 'United States of South Asia.' I guess one is driven to act by the rules of the neighbourhood, and that is the situation for my country India. We are progressing in every possible way, be it economic, social, mental, scientific etc. But Some of our fundamentalist brothers can never stop getting instigated in all the wrong ways to this Hindu-Muslim issue because of the way people in other countries behave. And then they end up burning our own buses, our own people's property, our own government buildings, bought by the heavy tax we have paid. As for the mysery of the innocent pakistani common citizens is concerned, I know it is a reality that they are the worst sufferers. I have close friends in London where I live, of Pakistani origin. Some of them where actually in Pakistan for a vacation when Benazir got killed. People in Pakistan have killed themselves at her death

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