What a crying shame! , the one hope for a decent whack at democracy in Pakistan, cut down by an assassin who then blew himself up. What kind of twisted logic drives these religious zealots? Where is it written in the Koran that they should do this?

Intellectually speaking, if the now-President Musharraf does not declare a state of emergency he reveals himself to be a tyrant for his previous declaration a few weeks ago. Bhutto was, after all, just killed (along with 20 or so others) by a radical that he was trying to protect Pakistan from with his clampdown!

Silly me though, thinking that there might be a real democracy there for once… It seems Pakistan is doomed to become a battleground for muslim crazies believing in the cult of death.

Update, Dec. 28th: Now the Pakistan Interior Ministry is saying she wasn’t shot and her injuries came from her banging into something inside the vehicle (the sunroof); the PPP are saying that that is nonsense.

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