Benazir Bhutto, Gordon Brown And The Taliban
BENAZIR Bhutto is murdered and Gordon Brown makes a stand:
Gordon Brown: “Knowing, as she did, the threats to her life, the previous attempt at assassination, she risked everything in her attempt to win democracy in Pakistan, and she has been assassinated by cowards afraid of democracy. This is a dark day for everyone who believed in a stable and democratic future for Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto may have been killed by terrorists, but the terrorists must not be allowed to kill democracy in Pakistan. And this atrocity strengthens our resolve that terrorists will not win there, here or anywhere in the world”
No surrender. Unless…
Gordon Brown And The Taliban: “Spies from Britain’s MI6 are thought to have held at least six meetings with key Taliban figures in order to negotiate a peace deal in Afghanistan’s south-eastern Helmand province. The revelations are an embarrassment to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who just a fortnight ago denied in the British Parliament any such talks were taking place”
Fearless stuff. Benazir Bhutto is missed…
“If it means sacrificing our lives, if it means sacrificing our liberties to save Pakistan, then we are prepared to risk our lives and we are prepared to risk our liberties, but we are not prepared to surrender our great nation to the militants” - Benazir Bhutto.
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January 8th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Benazir Bhutto (June 21, 1953 – December 27, 2007) was a
Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party a
centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman
elected to lead a Muslim state,[1] having twice been Prime Minister of
Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996).
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December 29th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Sadly, she died because the Western powers liked her, and the West is hated now in Islamic nations more than ever before, a situation that will get worse and worse as long as the stupid US-led occupation of Iraq continues. God knows the situation was bad enough before all that. How bad it will get is directly proportional to how stupid our leaders continue to be.
December 28th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Courage is all in leaders. Gordon Brown’s talking of cowards makes her all the more admirable…
This the government that lied to the people over war
December 28th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
funny how a satirical website has so many gullibles posting ‘insprirational’ at the drop of a hat. is she to become the pakistani queen of hearts?
i find it hard to believe you that you find it hard to believe i didn;t read her obituary. not sure it is required, as an obituary is a piece of creative writing written by someone about their idea of someone else when they pop their clogs.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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craig Says:
December 28th, 2007 at 9:51 am
all murder is evil. but that aside, she was just another politician. she was charismatic but she wasn;t an angel.
inspirational? hardly… corruption and dynastic politics everywhere. same old crap, pretty face on it.
diana syndrome.
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There was some corruption, but it’s never been clear that Benazir herself was involved and not many political dynasties are founded on the execution of a parent.
I find it difficult to believe that Craig has actually read her obituary; dismissing her as a pretty face is about as uninformed as it is possible to get…
December 28th, 2007 at 9:51 am
all murder is evil. but that aside, she was just another politician. she was charismatic but she wasn;t an angel.
inspirational? hardly… corruption and dynastic politics everywhere. same old crap, pretty face on it.
diana syndrome.
December 28th, 2007 at 7:33 am
She was an inspirational lady to everyone! I wish the world had more leaders like her and I hope there is someone to step in and take over the family legacy! The world has lost a true leader and a courageous woman!
December 28th, 2007 at 7:30 am
She’d have given an alternative
December 28th, 2007 at 12:25 am
I loved Benazir, she was a great politician and always had fabulous eyeliner, but she wouldn’t have done much for Pakistan. The militants are fairly entrenched in the Military at the mid-level, the country is riven with ethnic and tribal factions and she had a history of being accused of corruption.
Truth is - Musharraf is alive and it’s business as usual (give or take a few riots).
December 27th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
There will be very many people in this country, and around the world, who will be shocked and disheartened by the assasination of Benazir Bhutto. Not everybody is able to take in the news and comment at this particularly busy time of year, but their respect for this courageous woman will be just as sincere.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Anorak writes:
‘Gordon Brown And The Taliban: “Spies from Britain’s MI6 are thought to have held at least six meetings with key Taliban figures in order to negotiate a peace deal in Afghanistan’s south-eastern Helmand province. The revelations are an embarrassment to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who just a fortnight ago denied in the British Parliament any such talks were taking place”
In fairness to Gordon Brown it’s worth noting this extract from the Guardian’s obituary:
‘Controversy has also focused on the exact role the Bhutto government played in the formation and success of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan, which formed in 1994 and took Kabul in 1996 a few days after the dismissal of Bhutto’s second administration. Bhutto maintained that no military or logistic assistance was offered to the movement, though there was continual ‘political engagement’.
This, she said in one of her last interviews, was ‘logical and reasonable’ as it was important to try and moderate the movement and use it to stabilise Afghanistan, to allow commercial ties between Pakistan, its neighbour and central Asian states to grow.’
I assume that Gordon Brown would contend also that it is ‘logical and reasonable’ to try and negotiate a peace settlement…
December 27th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Sadly its a very serious loss to the world, and only time can realise the severity of it.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I already mentioned this on the Mccs anorak ,but they don’t even bother
This is terrible.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
can’t say no
thank you for bothering to read this and for commenting - the more comments on this site, the more Anorakers read it. Her assassination is as important as Martin Luther King’s, except Pakistan doesn’t have a president who will complain about her death.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Brown talking about cowards - this being Brown the bottler, the unelected leader of the country, the champion of democracy…
December 27th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Sorry ,but I can’t put in the same table ,most of the Poticians worldwide , with this Lady
She really faught for democracy.
Sorry my english
December 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
No other Anorakers are bothered, though, are they? She had been the best chance of a democratic parliament for Pakistan for well over a decade and had been legally pro-democratic for years. Her days had been numbered by her opponents for too many years and even her party claiming her martyrdom can’t change the fact that her political opponents have won by killing her in the face of her long battle for peaceable reason over the usual greedy power of politics.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
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Anorak
Words !
But what have wedone to help ???
December 27th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Brown’s comments put her into context - a career politican speaking on an educated woman born and groomed to rule
December 27th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
It is so sad. And we all knew ,this would hapen sooner or later.
I think ,Mr. G. Brown ,could have is mouth shut, because he is not even a shadow ,of what tha lady was.
RIP
December 27th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
anyone who cares for human life should be upset
December 27th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
And, until I posted this response, there were more responses on the Abi TotalTitMuss thread. A sorry world.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Thanks for your interest, I was so struck and saddened today to find that they have got rid of her, as they have been wanting to do for so long - wasn’t the last attempt on her life only in October? It is a much bigger story today than the dregs of the McCann case we are poring over, but then I am as guilty as any of us and I have just posted several paragraphs of stuff on the McCann thread which I hope gets some civil comment.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
‘I think it says a lot that we are all too busy with our sleuthing on the McCann thread to be bothered to comment on what a big story this is
Well said!
The disappearance/death of a wee girl or the death of Benazir Bhutto - which event is of greater significance?
There are some astute thinkers contributing to the ‘Maddie’ threads. It will be interesting to see how many (if any) offer an analysis of the possible political/economical repercussions the assasination of Benazir Bhutto will have for Pakistan, its neighbours, and the broader ‘war on terror’?
December 27th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Honestly, just angsting too much over the delay in the McCann parents being able to clear their name.
Benazir Bhutto was indeed an inspiration, goodness knows the effect her murder will have on the world.
Even though not blonde
December 27th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Agreed - Where is everyone? The woman was an inspiration killed by plodding, narrow-minded, criminal bigots
December 27th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I think it says a lot that we are all too busy with our sleuthing on the McCann thread to be bothered to comment on what a big story this is. Bhutto has been assassinated and Pakistan’s political stability is even more unlikely.