Mr. Sausages Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Not really a great surprise. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7161590.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Ayres Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Still, a sad day for democracy. Not that the bhutto family were great champions of that cause, just another dynasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 well Im a bit shocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plectrum Infusion Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Extra psycho kudos points need to be awarded for the manner in which she was killed. "We've shot her twice now, she's dead." "OK, but blow her up anyway, just to be sure." It's like some kind of bizarre XBox 360 achievement. Oh well, at least a major nuclear power isn't about to start descending into anarchy, as its major nuclear power neighbour looks on in alarm...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Interesting that a major element of the initial BBC news coverage was devoted to the American reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
germann Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 The Pakistanis round here are going bonkers about it. Corrupt, or not; like her or loathe her, she did represent a semblance of democracy in Wackystan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino Crazy Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I'm not surprised, she was dead the moment she step off the plane in Pakistan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesultanofsheight Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I bet Imran Khan is bricking it right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Has anyone put their hands up for this yet ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Did you see the guy who announced her death outside the hospital? Everyone else who broke-down crying when they learned she was dead? Wouldn't you LOVE to have that passion toward a local MHK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Godfather of Manx House Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 As pointed out. Very sad but VERY inevitable... ...GOMH*... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 As pointed out. Very sad but VERY inevitable... ...GOMH*... The really sad thing is that she seems to have been in an armoured car at the time - chances are if she had not been waving to the crowds through the sunroof, the attempt would have failed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldmanxfella Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Wouldn't you LOVE to have that passion toward a local MHK? What if one got shot or just generally? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Wouldn't you LOVE to have that passion toward a local MHK? What if one got shot or just generally? Well generally.....I don't think anyone would even know if my local MHK was shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollag Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 I look down on these 3rd world countries where they insist in putting people in power cos they are the Daughter/ son /wife of some previous maroon who conned his way into power. Wouldnt happen here would it Mr Bush /Kennedy/ Clinton The Bhutto Business Key figures in Pakistan's Bhutto dynasty: Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto: late grandfather of Benazir Bhutto. Senior figure in the Pakistan Muslim League, the party that helped split Pakistan from India and lead it to independence in 1947. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: Bhutto's father. Became prime minister in 1971 after founding the populist Pakistan Peoples Party with the motto: ``Food, shelter and clothing for all.'' Executed in 1979 by the government of then-military ruler Gen. Mohammed Zia-ul Haq on charges of arranging the murder of the father of a political opponent. Nusrat Bhutto: Bhutto's mother. Lawmaker who took control of her husband's party after his death. Soon eclipsed by her ambitious daughter and has not been seen in public in recent years because of illness. Benazir Bhutto: Took over the leadership of her father's party; in 1988 elected the Islamic world's first women prime minister but was fired 20 months later on corruption accusations by the country's military-backed president. Elected again in 1993, only to be removed three years later. Slain Thursday by a suicide attacker as she campaigned to become premier a third time. Murtaza Bhutto: Older of Benazir Bhutto's two brothers; died in shootout with police just outside his Karachi residence while his sister was prime minister. Shahnawaz Bhutto: Younger brother; organized opposition from France but died under mysterious circumstances in his apartment on the Riviera in 1980. Ghinwa Bhutto: Murtaza's wife. Has accused Bhutto and her husband of planning Murtaza's killing. Founded a breakaway faction of the People's Party that garners few votes. Fatima Bhutto: Ghinwa's 25-year-old daughter. Has criticized Benazir Bhutto in her columns for the English-language daily The News. Educated, photogenic and headstrong, she has been touted as a possible successor at the helm of the PPP. Bilawal Zardari: Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son and her oldest of three children. Recently been hailed as a potential heir to his mother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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