The gun-toting generals are supported by a handful of beneficiaries who go by the name of the “civil society,” or “shushil samaj” in Bengali vernacular, as is happening in Bangladesh. Cult figures like Benazir are revered and loved by the public, even if they might have scandals and controversies of corruption dogging them and their lives. Leaders like Benazir face the public in spite of their tainted names, their appeal for public office either accepted or rejected by the electorate trough the mechanism of elections. On the other hand, generals and their grafts and corruptions in government are held in place by brute force, elections are either abhorred or manipulated and distorted through the administrative and bureaucratic maze.

Benazir was killed because she wanted restoration of democracy, elections and an end to Musharraf’s gun-toting and tunic-clad governance. This would have meant baring the bureaucracy — both military and civil — to public scrutiny and accountability under a democratically elected government. If that had happened the cat would have been out of the bag on the inside-stories of the 10 years of Musharraf’s authoritarian military regime and dictatorship of Pakistan!

Bhutto therefore had to go. Her death was fait accompli. Arguably Benazir’s death had the Musharraf government’s hands in it. How or who did it doesn’t matter now. In fact, all traces for an investigation have been swept clean by the government functionaries, if that is at all an indication about who might have been behind the plot of the Benazir assassination.

Before the final and fatal end of Benazir Bhutto, General Pervez Musharraf had tried all games and gimmicks to bring Benazir to see his way and be his ally. Initially Benazir had played along Musharraf’s game as a ploy to allow her return to Pakistan from forced exile by Musharraf and retraction of Musharraf’s corruption charges and cases against her. On return to Pakistan Benazir turned the tables on Musharraf and went to the people for endorsing her and Pakistan’s right to return to democracy (remember Musharraf and his Government forbidding/asking Benazir Bhutto not to hold public meetings and rallies?). General Musharraf and his government had warned Benazir Bhutto that if she went to the people, public, they wouldn’t be held responsible for either her safety or any mishaps! That was in fact a veiled threat to Benazir to hold parleys and bargains with General Musharraf for power-sharing rather than seek power and right to governance from the people. General Pervez Mushrraf and Pakistan’s military establishment, albeit including the civil bureaucracy, did not want to see a return to democratic form of government in Pakistan.

As Benazir’s son Bilawal has said, Pakistan’s return to democracy shall be a sweet revenge for his mother’s tragic, but schemed, death. Benazir with all her faults, flaws and failings had ultimately paid with her life for her longing and desire to see Pakistan return to democracy, forsaking the military’s offer for power-sharing on the basis of a compromise; she went to the people rather than to the powers that be. Benazir has sacrificed her life for the sake of her people and their right to democracy.

Benazir is not only perhaps the “Daughter of Pakistan,” she is also plausibly, and rightfully, the “Mother of Democracy in Pakistan”, if not in the sub-Continent. Benazir Bhutto has died by the people and for the people. Let us pay homage to her and remember her as a scourge of authoritarian regimes and military dictatorships and a champion of democracy.

* Bhutto goes to address an election rally in Liaqat Ali Bagh

* Finishes her address and gets into her car at 5.30 P.M.

* Two men with AK 47 fire bullets. She is injured in the head and chest. (But later we have seen a man form her left-back fired 3 times, with 9mm )

* Simultaneously, there is a suicide attack near her car.

* No one goes near her car for 10 minutes fearing another explosion.

* She is rushed to hospital.

* Doctors take her to operation theatre.

* Declared dead at 6.16 P.M about 40 minutes after the attack.

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