Positive Universe Abstracts

Washington Post, United States

By Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Tuesday, January 1, 2008; Page A11

LAHORE, Pakistan — There is no law and certainly no order in my country. What happened this past week has shaken every Pakistani. Benazir Bhutto was no ordinary person. She served as prime minister twice and had returned to Pakistan in an effort to [...]

Desicritics.org, India

December 30, 2007 temporal

The Chairperson for Life of the Pakistan Peoples Party is not the Chairperson today. Life cut off its tenuous relationship with her. Some reports indicate it was shrapnel wound, others say shots fired at her killed her. Brigadier Cheema, a spokesperson for the government said she hit the back of her head [...]

International Analyst Network, NY

Ahmed Quraishi

We have warned about this: Blatant U.S. support for Mrs. Bhutto is an open invitation for anti-U.S. terrorists to kill her. She knew this but played along. Despite the image of a daring democratic warrior, she never would have returned to Pakistan if not for Washington’s nudge. Just this week, she [...]

Huffington Post, NY

STEPHEN ELLIOTT

Benazir Bhutto was standing in an open car in the military city of Rawalpindi when the shrapnel sliced into her. That was just over a day ago. Violence has engulfed the region and we’re waiting for the next chapter in this ever-worsening dilemma.

It would be cynical to blame Hillary Clinton for Bhutto’s [...]

Guardian Unlimited, UK

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto heaps despair upon Pakistan. Now her party must be democratically rebuilt

Tariq Ali Friday December 28, 2007

Even those of us sharply critical of Benazir Bhutto’s behaviour and policies - both while she was in office and more recently - are stunned and angered by her death. Indignation and fear stalk [...]

Indian Muslims, CA

By Sreeram Chaulia, IANS

The assassination of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto by snipers and suicide bombers Dec 27 in Rawalpindi has left the world shell shocked. One could see it coming, though, as a predictable outcome of the tailspin into which Pakistan’s polity and society have hurtled through incessant militarisation. Beyond the [...]

YouTube / AlJazeera English

In this November 2, 2007 interview, David Frost speaks to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto about her controversial return to Pakistan, who she thinks is behind the deadly bombing of her convoy in Karachi last month, and whether she and Musharraf can forge a powersharing agreement.