Elizabeth John Final Paper part 3

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was a significant oppositional leader to the future of the Pakistani Government. With her death parliamentary elections will be postponed after a huge outburst of violence was triggered by the assassination according to Ki-Media.com. President Pervez Musharraf has set back the general election from January eighth to February eighteenth; he said “the postponement was justified after the assessment of the current situation and that the government is committed to a fair, transparent and free election.” (According to Chinaview.cn). This is some what of good news for Pakistan and the Peoples Party (PPP) for they will have a fair chance to choose a new candidate for election, but nobody can replace the wonderful and charismatic Benazir Bhutto who will be deeply missed by the world and especially her Pakistan’s People Party.
Benazir Bhutto was killed on December 27 2007 in a suicide bomb attack and shooting. The official cause of death was a fractured skull caused by hitting her head on part of her cars sunroof as the bomb had went off through the crowd of supporters according to CNN.com. The news was not taken easily by Pakistan. A lot of demonstrators in Karachi, Sindh providence broke out through violence. A dozen banks were burned; two train stations along with three trains were set on fire. Because of the outbreak of violence parliamentary forces in Sindh were told to “shoot on sight” to anyone who was destroying anything according to CNN.com.
The day after her death on the twenty-eighth of December the funeral service was held, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the streets of Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest in Garhi Khuda Baksh near Larkana, Pakistan. The grieving supporters were crushed up against her coffin, where a few small violent breakouts occurred amongst the crowd. Even before the procession violence erupted throughout Pakistan unfortunately taking the lives of nine people, the violent mourners also torched banks, train stations, and cars. This horrible death did obviously cause a huge upset in Pakistan throughout the angry supporters who hoped to have Bhutto help them from poverty and pain into wealth and prosperity.
On Sunday December thirtieth 2007 a news conference in Naudero near Larkana Pakistan Bhutto’s son Bilawal Zardari was nominated Chairman of Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party in hopes to succeed in his mothers honor.
Memorials were held in numerous places around the world and so many people grieved the death of this amazing woman. A memorial service was held in Bhutto’s home in Dubai on January second 2008 and one a few days after. On Friday December twenty-eighth special memorial service was held in Mississauga Muslim Community Centre in Toronto and it was organized by the Pakistan People’s Party in which hundreds attended according to EON. On January sixth a remembrance service was held. A memorial was built in honor of this courageous woman. According to Pak-times.com the Pakistan Peoples Party created a foundation named Bhutto Memorial trust in the memory of Benazir Bhutto and her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and there contributions to democracy in Pakistan. There efforts will not be forgotten. There were a lot of virtual memorials posted online by individuals, but it was difficult to locate any big newspapers with coverage or a memorial for Benazir Bhutto which is very upsetting because this woman was going to make history in the Islamic community in Pakistan.
Before her death Benazir Bhutto finished her book titled “Reconciliation”. In her book Bhutto explained her vision of Islam as “an open pluralistic and tolerant religion” that she says has been taken over by extremists. Bhutto believed that Islam and the West need not headed on a collision course toward a “clash of civilizations”. Bhutto’s mission was to turn over “years of pain, suffering, sacrifice and separation” into “an all consuming prosperity”.
Benazir Bhutto is the fourth member of her immediate family to die violently against the surroundings of Pakistani Politics. Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged in 1979 on charges of having planned the murder of a minor political opponent. Then in 1985 Benazir’s younger brother Shahhawaz mysteriously died from poison. Bhutto’s other brother Murtaza was gunned down outside his home in 1996. Benazir Bhutto had suffered a great deal of grief through out her life but she did not let this stop her from pursuing her father’s original plans for a more democratic nation in Pakistan.
This woman’s assassination is enormous and will have a great affect on Pakistan and every nation in this world. Since Pakistan does have the development of nuclear weapons they are a threat to this world. Bhutto would have made a great deal of change if this incident had not occurred. America will be involved with Pakistan in some way because Pakistan is enemies with our allies; India. I feel there were not enough press and media of this woman in the United States. This women is a huge factor in history, she was the first woman who attempted to become a leader of an Islamic Pakistan which is almost near impossible. I feel this woman deserves more recognition among the United States because she was going to help turn Pakistan around but instead the United States has almost ignored the existence of this assassination with barely any coverage on the events after the assassination which I feel is unfair to this courageous woman, she will be deeply missed.