The facts will always remain facts. A good eye opener article for all those who consider her a matyr of democracy and the so called a good friend of India.
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by Sami on Dec 31, 2007 07:08 PM Permalink
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
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by Sami on Dec 31, 2007 07:10 PM Permalink
I had first met Benazir Bhutto 17 years back when she had come to Delhi to participate in Rajiv Gandhi%u2019s funeral. Since then, whenever she came to India, she invariably met me and discussed with me the Indo Pak relations and the problem of terrorism. The last time I spoke to Smt. Benazir Bhutto was on October 19, the day of her arrival in Pakistan, after many years of exile abroad, to resume her battle for her country%u2019s democratisation. Religious extremists had made their intention known on that day itself, since her courageous return to Pakistan coincided with a terrorist attack in which more than 125 persons were killed. In my telephonic conversation, I said to her: %u201CI am gratified that you have escaped this bid on your life. The people of India are with you in your struggle against both military rule and terrorism.%u201D Thanking me for my words of solidarity, she had said: %u201CAdvani Saheb, I was not in Pakistan when you came here in 2005. Now that I am back, I would like you to come again as our guest.%u201D Alas, she is now no more.
