Attentato a Benazir Bhutto: ultime notizie

Da poco il corpo di Benazir Bhutto è stato seppellito nella sua città natale, Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, a fianco del padre,Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, anche lui ex primo ministro e morto in circostanze tragiche.

Mi ricorda un pò il destino simile di Indira Gandhi, pur nella diversità delle storie personali e familiari.

Però in tutte e due i casi è come se un destino preciso avesse portato queste due donne in cima alla politica del proprio paese, sulle orme dei proprio padre, prima, passando poi per scandali ed accuse e finendo la propria vita per mano assassina.

La Bhutto sapeva abbastanza bene da quale parte venivano le minaccie ed era pervenuto il precedente attentato in ottobre che già aveva tentato di toglierla di mezzo.

In questo articolo scritto dalla stessa Bhutto dopo il primo attentato ci sono tutti i suoi sospetti e le sue paure.

http://www.repubblica.it/2007/11/sezioni/esteri/pakistan-1/assassini-bhutto/assassini-bhutto.html

Ciononostante aveva deciso di affrontare a viso aperto questi rischi e sapeva benissimo, l'aveva anche detto esplicitamente in dichiarazioni pubbliche, che stava rischiando la  vita. Ma disse anche che "i terroristi possono uccidere le persone ma le loro idee sopravviveranno comunque".

Di lei rimane il ricordo di una bella donna, coraggiosa, forse non all'altezza dell'immane compito che si era prefissata, però una nobile figura in una parte del mondo dove molto spesso la politica è solo sinonimo di intrighi, intrallazzi, uccisioni e trabocchetti di vario tipo, in un paese che riesce ad essere un occulto finanziatore dei talebani ed allo stesso tempo il più importante alleato USA nella regione (incredibile ma vero!).

Questo un articolo di un giornale pakistano che ben esprime la situazione gravissima del paese:

                             

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan faces the worst crisis in its modern history after the killing of Benazir Bhutto, an attack aimed at destabilising the nuclear-armed Islamic nation and wrecking planned elections, analysts said.     The country is on the edge of mass unrest following Bhutto's assassination on Thursday, with more than 20 people dying in riots and political violence sparked by her death in a gun and suicide bomb attack.     Analysts said President Pervez Musharraf would have to reach out to opponents who have held him responsible for, at the very least, failing to protect Bhutto -- or face an end to his eight year-rule.     With elections due in less than two weeks intended to be a pivotal step on the road to democracy, the turmoil is posing the biggest challenge to Pakistan since Bangladesh split off from Pakistan more than 35 years ago Benazir Bhutto laid to rest GARHI KHUDA BUX, Pakistan, Dec 28 (APP): Amidst tears, sobs and sighs of grief, opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest Friday, next to the grave of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, at the family graveyard in Garhi Khuda Bux, 32 kms from her hometown Larkana in Sindh province. A pall of gloom hung over the atmosphere as the body of the assassinated Chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party was lowered into the grave in the white mausoleum of her father. Tens of thousands of people, carrying party flags, walked for miles or travelled by all means of available transport to attend the funeral . Her husband Asif Zardari, along with children Bilawal, Bakhtawar and Asifa who had arrived late Friday night from Dubai and had accompanied the body to Larkana, besides Benazir’s sister Sanam and other family members paid their last respects before the funeral procession left the Bhutto House. The mourners walked along the coffin-carrier, reciting the Kalima, as it passed through the dusty village roads towards the mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bux. The funeral prayers were led by Imam of Garhi Khuda Baksh Mosque, Prof Mufti Abdul Rahim, in the large ground next to the mausoleum. (First Posted @ 16:50 PST Updated @ 18:02 PST) Grief, anger at Bhutto funeral procession NAUDERO, Pakistan, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Thousands of mourners wept and beat their heads and chests as the body of Benazir Bhutto, slain former Pakistan prime minister, left her ancestral home at the start of the funeral procession on Friday. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, accompanied the closed coffin draped with the green, red and black tricolour of her Pakistan People's Party as it began the 7-km journey by ambulance to the family mausoleum at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, a village set among paddy fields in the southern province of Sindh.Anti-Musharraf and anti-US slogans were heard from the throng lining the road and standing on rooftops. Some protesters chanted defiance: “No matter how many Bhuttos you will kill, a Bhutto will emerge from each house.” Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's first popularly elected prime minister, lies alongside his sons Murtaza and Shahnawaz in the white-domed mausoleum Benazir Bhutto ordered to be built. (Posted @ 16:30 PST Benazir Bhutto's funeral to start at 2:30p.m. PST KARACHI, Dec 28: The funeral and burial of slain Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto will be held in Garhi Khuda Baksh, Naudero after Friday prayers, at about 2:30p.m. Pakistan Standard Time. A senior party leader said, Bhutto, 54, is to be buried in the family's ancestral graveyard in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh near the town of Larkana. Her grave is to be next to that of former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, they said. (First Posted @ 10:05 PST; Updated @ 11:05 PST) Bhutto's body arrives for burial in family graveyard ISLAMABAD, Dec 28 (AFP): The body of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrived in Naudero before dawn Friday for burial in the family's graveyard, party officials said. The plane landed in Sukkur from where the body and members of her family were flown by helicopter to Naudero, her spokesman Farhatullah Babar told AFP. Her husband Asif Zardari, their three children and some senior leaders of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) travelled on the plane. (Posted @ 09:40 PST) Elections still on Jan. 8: PM Soomro ISLAMABAD, Dec 28 (Reuters): Pakistan's plan to hold a Jan. 8 general election still stands, caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro said Friday, a day after opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. “Elections stand as they were announced,” caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro told reporters when asked if a decision had been made on the timing of the parliamentary polls in light of Bhutto's death. (Posted @ 12:36 PST) Nawaz Sharif says elections now would destroy Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Dec 28 (AFP): Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif said Friday if the government went ahead with parliamentary elections next month, it will “destroy the country. If the government is adamant about holding elections on January 8, it is going on a self-destructive path which will not only destroy the government itself but will also destroy the country,” he said. Wants Musharraf to resign: Mr Nawaz Sharif said the “number-one demand” of the nation was for President Pervez Musharraf to resign as soon as possible. Mr Musharraf has to step down. This is the number-one demand of the nation today. And I can see that people want this to happen as quickly as possible without any delay,” he told reporters. (Posted @ 14:20 PST) Pakistan forces get shoot-on-sight orders in Karachi: official KARACHI, Dec 28 (AFP): Paramilitary forces in Karachi were Friday ordered to shoot rioters on sight to prevent unrest after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, a paramilitary officer said. “Rangers have been given orders to shoot on sight if they see miscreants indulging in anti-state activities, attacking government property or setting on fire private property,” Major Athar Ali told reporters. He said the force had deployed 16,000 troops in Sindh, 10,000 of them in Karachi alone. Trad: le truppe paramilitari pakistane hanno l'ordine di sparare a vista in caso di gravi disordini... Le truppe pattugliano in forze le zone più calde del paese.