Benazir Bhutto assassinated
And boy did they do a full job of the whole thing, two guys with ak47s shot her and then a suicide bomb was detonated near her car. They didn’t take any chances. I sent Marc a message asking for confirmation because I was at a wedding when I heard and it turns out it was true. Saw the rest of the story on the TV in the lobby, that Musharraf dude’s a live wire, you can’t just let him hold power. He’s dangerous, and not just to his own country. Pakistan’s one of those few countries worse off than us religion-wise, politics-wise…Heck! They’re just worse off than us. I feel sorry for the Pakistanis, but they’ve really let the religious fundies take over. Sucks to be them.
Here’s the BBC article on the assassination: Benazir Bhutto killed in attack.
A set of pictures they have: Life in Pictures
Posted by roshan.george under Disasters, India, Pakistan, Politics |
Everyone is surprised that there is a country worse off than India.
Comment by Marc — December 28, 2007 @ 1:28 am
There’s Bangladesh, and there’s Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka dude, civil war and shit.
Comment by roshan.george — December 28, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
What do you mean “a country worse”? There are several countries worse than India.
Comment by Arun M — December 28, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
True enough, it’s sort of a ratio of opinion of self vs. reality. For India that’s very high. At least people in other countries don’t have a excessively big opinion of their own country.
Comment by roshan.george — December 28, 2007 @ 1:35 pm
We are supposed to be the world’s largest democracy, upcoming superpower and shit like that. You see any of these other worse countries claiming these grandiose things?
If we admit that India is under developed and its society needs radical reforms we can begin to improve. Anyone claiming we are well off is either delusional or simply doesn’t know much about what goes on in the country.
Comment by Marc — December 28, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
Exactly! I’ve got a post that’s stuck in draft-hell that talks about exactly that. They want to be on the damn permanent security council, want to be recognised as a nuclear power, call themselves a superpower, and throw their weight around in the neighbourhood ineffectively. That’s what sucks.
Comment by roshan.george — December 28, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
Only the politicians and the press claim that we are upcoming super powers. Ordinary citizens like you and me know that it is not so.
Comment by Adithya Sridhar — December 28, 2007 @ 8:13 pm
thats was a really sad moment for pakistani nation… because she is our great leader … no one knows who killed her … why they killed her … every one has this question in mind :(
Comment by Muhammad — August 4, 2009 @ 7:29 am