The Democratic Duplicity

I am also unable to fathom the logic behind her request to involve the FBI or Scotland Yard to assist in the forensic investigation of the blasts in her October 18th rally. There have been numerous bomb blasts in the country prior to the assassination attempt on Madam Bhutto, but when the government of Pakistan has never involved foreign agencies in their investigation, then why should the chairperson of the Pakistan People’s party expect the government to take special steps for her?

The 3rd of November might be a black day for other political leaders, but not for madam Bhutto, because when all democratic forces of the country are either under house arrest or are banished, she is conducting high profile meetings with the presidency, or in her own words, with the implementer of the “mini-martial law”. According to a well-reputed English Newspaper of the country “The News”, PPP members have confirmed one such furtive meeting on Monday 5th November 2007.

People of Pakistan yearn for a true leader, and a true leader is the one who arises from the masses. He/she knows how it feels to force oneself to sleep with an empty stomach, he/she knows how it feels to save up money to buy second hand clothes from a second hand shop and what it is like to live in a house without electricity in the scorching heat of summers. The people of Pakistan neither have an interest in a leader who shops from SAKS Fifth Avenue, carrying Louis Vuitton bags in their manicured hands and who can’t even speak the national language “Urdu” with a proper accent, nor are they interested in the senseless and piteous leader Nawaz Sharif who like President Bush is vain without a razor-sharp advisor. Fortunately or unfortunately, President Bush has Condolezza Rice beside him, but Nawaz Sharif has no one.