Extremists in Pakistan call Bhutto ‘the agent of America’ – Benazir plans to distance herself from Musharraf and western colonialism
Balaji Reddy
Oct. 13, 2007

She was brought up in political family. She is the ‘Indira Gandhi’ of Pakistan. Charismatic and politically shrewd Benazir now faces her life’s biggest challenge.

She is coming back to Pakistan in the middle of massive controversies, threats from the extremists and the unknown ‘Musharraf’ factor.

Benazir has others plans. She is taking some calculated risk to bring Pakistan into a free democratic status. Her father championed democracy – a very rare word in Pakistan. But at the end her father, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was hanged on murder charges in 1979 after his ouster in an earlier military coup.

All eyes are on America. The American foreign policy required Bhutto to assume office to lodge the real attack on the Islamic extremists. The problem is that Bhutto now is being seen in Pakistan as American agent to provide continuity to Mushraff’s legacy.

Benazir is shrewd. She is using America and other western colonial powers to get back into power. But soon she will distance herself from America and Musharraf after she gets a hold of Pakistan. She is a Sindhi. She has reached out to Indian leadership. She maintains very close touch with Indian BJP leader Advani, also a Sindhi. She will take Pakistan closer to India and away from America and the Islamic extremists.

Benazir and Indian leadership will forge ahead the ‘South Asian’ solidarity. During her exile she learnt that western powers look at their own interest. Real friend of Pakistan is only one country in the world. That is India. British divided India into Pakistan to create havoc in the subcontinent. It worked well for the western colonial powers. America continuously aided Pakistan with money and sophisticated arms to ‘keep India under check’. But things have changed. The Iraq war has brought Pakistan and India closer. It has exposed the western colonial powers like never before.

Pakistan will deploy 3,500 police and paramilitary troops to guard Benazir Bhutto when she returns within days amid Islamic extremists'' threats to her life. The question is one – can she reach out to these extremists and bring them back into mainstream democratic free Pakistan. International think tanks believe, she is no ‘Karzai of Afghanistan.’ She will distance herself from the colonial western powers and unite Pakistan. She will unite South Asia by extending her hands to India and bring back the South Asian solidarity that the subcontinent lost when the British divided India into two parts.

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