A personal loss%u2014L.K. Advani %u201CI am filled with a deep sense of disbelief, shock and grief at the news of the assassination of Smt. Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan and president of the Pakistan People%u2019s Party, in Rawalpindi. Smt. Bhutto has become a martyr to the cause of defence of democracy and the global war on jehadi terrorism. I strongly condemn this terrorist attack. On behalf of my party, my family and on my own behalf, I send my heartfelt condolences to her husband Shri Asif Zardari and their three children. She was a friend of our family and she sincerely desired friendly and peaceful relations between India and Pakistan. I spoke to Shri Zardari telephonically at Dubai airport before he emplaned for Pakistan. The fact that she fell to the bullet of the assassins in the midst of national elections in Pakistan should leave no one in doubt that Pakistan is not only in the throes of instability but a far more dangerous process of Talibanisation. The enormously sinister implications of this development for India, in our own fight against jehadi terrorism, cannot be overstated. I spoke to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who is in Goa, and expressed my apprehensions on this score. I suggested him that he should immediately convene a meeting to brief leaders of opposition parties about the deeply worrisome developments in Pakistan and also Nepal. I thanked him for accepting the suggestion. I had first met Benazir Bhutto 17 years back when she had come t
