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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL THINKERS the.moderator ------------------------------------------------ [1] From: "Dr.Y. C.Zala" <yczala@yahoo.co.in Date: Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:45 pm Subject: Some thought from Ignited Mind yczala Great teacher creates, great citizens I will organize and conduct my life in such a way that my life itself is a message for the students By: A Teacher "Ignited mind is the most powerful resource" By: AJP Abdul Kalam “My friends, with your enlightened knowledge, go and spread all parts of the world and ignite the minds”. By: St Ignatius Loyola ---------- [2] Bhutto Assassination Heightens Threat Of US Intervention In Pakistan By Bill Van Auken http://www.countercurrents.org/auken291207.htm The mass popular revulsion over the Bhutto assassination has unleashed intense instability in Pakistan. A further unraveling of the political situation could well draw the US military into direct involvement in the attempt to suppress popular upheavals in a country of 165 million people A Tragedy Born Of Military Despotism And Anarchy By Tariq Ali http://www.countercurrents.org/ali291207.htm The assassination of Benazir Bhutto heaps despair upon Pakistan. Now her party must be democratically rebuilt Benazir Bhutto: A Victim Of American Meddling By Ahmed Quraishi http://www.countercurrents.org/quraishi291207.htm We have warned about this: Blatant U. S. support for Mrs. Bhutto is an open invitation for anti-U. S. terrorists to kill her. She knew this but played along. Despite the image of a daring democratic warrior, she never would have returned to Pakistan if not for Washington’s nudge. Just this week, she openly supported American accusations against Pakistan about ‘wasting’ $ 5 billion in U. S. aid, allegations that drew unusually strong rebuke from her own country. With her death, Washington’s plans for regime-change in Pakistan lie in complete tatters Benazir Bhutto Faced Death With Courage By Mirza A. Beg http://www.countercurrents.org/beg291207.htm Pakistan is again at fateful cross roads. It is sixty years late, but not too late, because what else can a people or a nation do, but to take up the fallen standard and persevere. Pakistanis can reject the politics of fear imposed by the quick-fix promises of military dictatorships. They should take up the difficult long journey of slowly building civil institutions of imperfect political give and take to reach an internal cohesion and become a nation at peace with itself and its neighbors BhuttoAssassination: Pakistan's Tragedy By G. Asgar Mitha http://www.countercurrents.org/mitha291207.htm It is doubtful that Pakistan and the world will ever know for a long time who assassinated Benazir Bhutto but we may come to know, not today but certainly some time in the future, that there was a conspiracy. Ms. Bhutto came to Pakistan to participate in the elections because it was in the US interests. She is dead, just like her killer, so we will never know what those interests were A Global Warming Message For Christmas 2008 By Dan Bloom http://www.countercurrents.org/bloom291207.htm Santa, I have a question for you. About this global warming thing. I keep hearing my mom and dad talk about it. So I want to know: will there be a North Pole for my great-grandchildren in 2100 or will you have moved your operations to maybe somewhere along the Arctic Circle d-o-t-t-e-d l-i-n-e at latitude 66°33'? -------------- [3] From: Khan Arif <ank2000pk@yahoo.com Date: Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:59 am Subject: Who plotted Benzir's Assassination? As the following story and other media reports show Pakistan Peoples Party dismissed the account of Benazir's assassination given by Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema as pack of lies despite the fact that Cheema had stated that Judicial inquiry is taking place. "The story that al-Qaida or Baitullah Mehsud arranged assassination of Benazir appears to us to be a concocted story, because they want to divert the attention," said Farhatullah Babar, a PPP spokesman. After the Karachi attack, Bhutto accused elements in the ruling pro-Musharraf party of plotting to kill her. According to media reports Benazir had accused Chaudhry Pervez Elahi Chief Minister of Punjab and Ejazul Haque Federal Minister and son of late General Ziaul Haque and one or two others for plotting to kill her.. However, neither Benazir nor her aides provided any inkling of evidence to substantiate investigation. The fact remains that fifth columnists are active in Pakistan to destabilize the only Muslim country with nuclear power by terrorist attacks, inciting people to rioting and various Government officials such as Sheikh Rasheed, Aftab Shepao, Amir Muqam etc. are on their hit lists besides the President and PM as well as the opposition leaders like Nawaz Sharif, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and so was Benazir in particular because of her statements that she would allow American forces to hunt for Alquida terrorists in Pakistan. PPP's Sherry Rehman, who was in the vehicle with Benazir made a confused statement to BBC."To hear that Ms. Bhutto fell from an impact from a bump on a sun roof is absolutely rubbish. It is dangerous nonsense, because it implies there was no assassination attempt," It is not reported what she thought how Benazir got fatal injuries. One foreign journalist foolishly implied that the government's version was aimed at depriving the MS Bhutto from the status of martyr by making the death look accidental. Javed Iqbal Cheema never implied that it was not an assassination. He clearly said that the terrorist first fired some shots and than blew himself with a bomb killing several others. The fact was that just before the shooting started and the bomb exploded Benazir was waving at the cheering crowd standing and exposing herself from the sky window of the bulletproof car. When she was ducking the door of sky window bumped over her head with violent force because of the tremondou impact of bomb blast and the lever of the sky top door damaged her skull fatally and the wound was initially mistaken a bullet wound by the people who tried to give her first aid while rushing her to the hospital. In any case it matters a little how she was killed the important point on whose orders the attack was carried out. It is not only a great national loss and has created an embarrassing position for President Musharraf – specially because Benazir had agreed to work with President Musharraf because of influence of foreign friends. Anyway the life must go on the elections as planned must be held and may be postponed by a month or so to enable the PPP and other parties to reorganize their campaigns It is expected that PM would be consulting different parties for the election schedule. Arif Khan Militants, Bhutto aides allege cover-up By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - An Islamic militant group said Saturday it had no link to Benazir Bhutto's killing and the opposition leader's aides accused the government of a cover-up, disputing the official account of her death. The government stood firmly by its account of Thursday's assassination and insisted it needed no foreign help in any investigation. "This is not an ordinary criminal matter in which we require assistance of the international community. I think we are capable of handling it," said Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema. Bhutto's aides said they doubted militant commander Baitullah Mehsud was behind the attack on the opposition leader and said the government's claim that she died when she hit her head on the sunroof of her vehicle was "dangerous nonsense." Cheema said the government's account was based on "nothing but the facts" Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton called for an independent, international investigation into Bhutto's death — perhaps by the United Nations — saying Friday there was "no reason to trust the Pakistani government." Attackers opened fire at a motorcade of Bhutto's supporters as they returned to Karachi after her funeral, killing one man and wounding two, said Waqar Mehdi, a spokesman for Bhutto's party. The government said mass rioting has killed 38 people and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. In Rawalpindi, thousands of Bhutto supporters spilled onto the streets after a prayer ceremony for her, throwing stones and clashing with police who fired tear gas to try and subdue the crowd. President Pervez Musharraf told his top security officials that those looting and plundering "must be dealt with firmly and all measures be taken to ensure (the) safety and security of the people," the Associated Press of Pakistan reported. Pakistan's election commission called an emergency meeting for Monday to discuss the violence's impact on Jan. 8 parliamentary elections. Nine election offices in Bhutto's home province of Sindh in the south were burned to the ground, along with voter rolls and ballot boxes, the commission said in a statement. The violence also hampered the printing of ballot papers, training of poll workers and other pre-election logistics, the statement said. The U. S. government, which sees nuclear-armed Pakistan as a crucial ally in the war on terror, has pushed Musharraf to keep the election on track to promote stability, moderation and democracy in Pakistan, American officials said. Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro said Friday the government had no immediate plans to postpone the election, despite the violence and the decision by Nawaz Sharif, another opposition leader, to boycott the poll. Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party also called a meeting Sunday to decide whether to participate in the vote. Her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, told the British Broadcasting Corp. that their son would read a message left by Bhutto and addressed to the party in event of her death. Roads across Bhutto's southern Sindh province were littered with burning vehicles, smoking reminders of the continuing chaos since her assassination Thursday. Factories, stores and restaurants were set ablaze in Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, where 17 people have been killed and dozens injured, officials said. Army, police and paramilitary troops patrolled the nearly deserted streets of Bhutto's home city of Larkana, where rioting left shops at a jewelry market smoldering. The government blamed Bhutto's killing on al-Qaida and Taliban militants operating with increasing impunity in the lawless tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan. It released a transcript Friday of a purported conversation between Mehsud and another militant, apparently discussing the assassination. "It was a spectacular job. They were very brave boys who killed her," Mehsud said, according to the transcript. But a spokesman for Mehsud, Maulana Mohammed Umer, denied the militant was involved in the attack and dismissed the allegations as "government propaganda." "The fact is that we are only against America, and we don't consider political leaders of Pakistan our enemy," he said in a telephone call he made to The Associated Press from the tribal region of South Waziristan, adding that he was speaking on instructions from Mehsud. Cheema said the government had evidence to back its claim. "I don't think anybody has the capability to carry out such suicide attacks except for those people," he said. Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party accused the government of trying to frame Mehsud, saying the militant — through emissaries — had previously told Bhutto he was not involved in the Karachi bombing. "The story that al-Qaida or Baitullah Mehsud did it appears to us to be a planted story, an incorrect story, because they want to divert the attention," said Farhatullah Babar, a spokesman for Bhutto's party. After the Karachi attack, Bhutto accused elements in the ruling pro-Musharraf party of plotting to kill her. The government denied the claims. Babar said Bhutto's allegations were never investigated. Bhutto was killed Thursday evening when a suicide attacker shot at her and then blew himself up as she left a rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi near Islamabad. The attack killed about 20 others as well. Authorities initially said she died from bullet wounds, and a surgeon who treated her said the impact from shrapnel on her skull killed her. But Cheema said she was killed when she tried to duck back into the armored vehicle during the attack, and the shock waves from the blast smashed her head into a lever attached to the sunroof, fracturing her skull, he said. "We gave you absolute facts, nothing but the facts," he said. "It was corroborated by the doctors' report. It was corroborated by the evidence collected." Bhutto's spokeswoman Sherry Rehman, who was in the vehicle with her boss, disputed the government's version. "To hear that Ms. Bhutto fell from an impact from a bump on a sunroof is absolutely rubbish. It is dangerous nonsense, because it implies there was no assassination attempt," she told the BBC. "There was a clear bullet wound at the back of the neck. It went in one direction and came out another," she said. "My entire car is coated with her blood, my clothes, everybody — so she did not concuss her head against the sun roof." The government said it was forming two inquiries into Bhutto's death, one to be carried out by a high court judge and another by security forces. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_re_as/pakistan . ------------- [4] From: Abhiyya 2006 <abhiyya@yahoo.com Date: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:01 am Subject: Who killed Benazir? Andy Martin on "Who killed Benazir Bhutto?" Andy Martin analyzes the murder of Benazir Bhutto, and blames Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf for her killing. ..... "So who killed Benazir Bhutto? I believe that Pakistani intelligence will try to on the assassination on "Islamic militants." But this is probably one time when the fundamentalists are not guilty. The current military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, who styles himself a president, and was once known as "Busharraf" because of the mutual fawning between himself and President Bush after 9/11, is most likely at fault for this murder. Ironically, the dictator's brother lives in the Chicago area, quietly, where he is a respected doctor"..... ......... So why do I believe Musharraf killed Bhutto? First, the killing looks suspicious. The way the attack unfolded, with firearms first and explosions second, leads me to believe the detonations were designed to cover up the killing and indeed to create chaos as a cover for escape of the perpetrators. The bomb explosions were incidental to the murder of Bhutto. Assassins planning to use a bomb do not shoot first and bomb second. Second, I see the security situation around Bhutto as incredibly lax and ineffective. When Bhutto landed in Pakistan several weeks ago, another bombing attack led to massive death. She had virtually no protection moments before yesterday's attack. Either she was incredibly foolhardy, or she had been poorly advised to unnecessarily expose herself. http://www.pr-inside.com/andy-martin-analyzes-the-murder-of-r364192.htm Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? By Murtaza Shibli 28 December, 2007 Countercurrents. org ..... "Although the Jihadists and Al-Qaeda had allegedly vowed to kill her, the current Pakistani regime headed by General Musharraf can not be absolved and will be the greatest benefactor of her death. Another rival who may have been willing to see her dead are Chaudhry Brothers -- Chaudhry Pervez Illahi and Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain of Pakistan Muslim League Q, the political partner of General Musharraf. The Chaudhry Brothers were the bitterest opponents of Benazir's homecoming and tried unsuccessfully to stop President Musharraf from doing a deal with Bhutto."... http://www.countercurrents.org/shibli281207.htm The Times December 28, 2007 Main suspects are warlords and security forces The main suspects in the assassination are the foreign and Pakistani Islamist militants who saw Ms Bhutto as a Westernised heretic and an American stooge, and had repeatedly threatened to kill her. But fingers will also be pointed at the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, (ISI) which has had close ties to the Islamists since the 1970s and has been used by successive Pakistani leaders to suppress political opposition. Ms Bhutto narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in October, when a suicide bomber struck at a rally in Karachi to welcome her back from exile. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3100052.ece Who killed Benazir? We may never know (AFP) 30 December 2007 ..... General Zia, Bhutto’s brothers Murtaza and Shahnawaz and Pakistan’s first prime minister Liaqat Ali Khan all died in mysterious circumstances, and debate still rages today over who was responsible. “Given the track record of high-profile political assassinations in Pakistan, one does not expect the investigation of Bhutto’s killing will uncover the real culprits,” analyst Askari said. “Such murders do not get solved,” he said. “They remain open forever.” http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp? xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/Dece\ mber/subcontinent_December1060. xml§ion=subcontinent Who Killed Benazir? By Noah Shachtman December 28, 2007 4:57:00 PMCategories: War Update Al-Qaeda has already claimed credit for the assassination of Benzair Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister. But this crime has plenty of suspects -- any combination of whom might have been working together. Here's a line-up of the potential killers...... http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/12/who-killed-bena.html News Analysis: Who killed Benazir Bhutto? By Najam Sethi The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has raised two important questions. Who killed her and why? And what happens next to the Pakistan People’s Party and by corollary to Pakistani politics? http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp? page=2007%5C12%5C29%5Cstory_29-12-2007_\ pg1_6 With Regards Abi ---------- |
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