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
RE:A Spade of course is a Spade
by Sameer B. Maganji on Jan 17, 2008 06:51 AM Permalink
Continued from above: because they lost that glimer of hope with her murder. If someone like Benazir, who was supported by the world's 2 most powerful countries, was favoured by the world's most powerful man to be given the highest level of security, and was surrounded by the media of the whole globe, can get wiped out in no time, then what about the common man in Pakistan. Can any one of us imagine the amount of fear the people of Pakistan are living under with each passing moment? Being and Indian I cant refrainn from feeling sorry about her death, not just for the sake of her 3 children but for the millions of Pakistanis. Being Indian is about being forgiving. But that does not mean it is about being off-guard. With Pakistan and the likes as your neighbour no country can afford to be off-guard, with any prime-minister in power.
