The New Nation - Internet Edition

Martyrdom offered by Benazir for political values is not the first by a politician or even by a lady but the type and amount of nauseating indignation and grief it has aroused not only in Pakistan but across the world is mainly due to widespread perception that USA & its democratic allies were the driving force behind her return from her eight-year exile to implant absolute democracy (republic) in Pakistan.

Though Pakistan all along has been practicing and still prepared to practice diarchy (having pro-active President, elected or otherwise, with jurisdictions of martial affairs like defense, internal security, human rights, foreign affairs, consent to legislation etc. along with elected Prime Minister and Chief Ministers having jurisdictions of all the civil affairs of Pakistan).

This cold blooded unethical obstinacy of USA & its democratic allies and dereliction and hypocrisy of Pakistan's friend and neighbor China regarding stopping USA & its democratic allies from such dangerously Machiavellian manipulations (especially in view of the fact that China, a veto holding power of UN and thus its promoter and permanent member, is itself not practicing democracy) coupled with the pervasive 'anti-Americanism' especially within fundamentalist terrorists of Pakistan, had already put Benazir's life in great danger of which first proof and last warning had already come through October blast claiming about 100 lives on her arrival in Pakistan. This distorted hierarchy helped much that claimed Benazir's life.

Hem Raj Jain

New Delhi, India