Re: [nukkad] benazir - the other side

["Dr.M.C. Gupta" <>]

Q--Is she then a martyr of democracy?

A--She is a martyr of zihaadee , obscurantist, communalist, fundamentalist,
wahaabi Islam.

The anti-Hindu psecs may as well find it non-surprising that for them, Man
Mohan is a non-Hindu and one non-Hindu's praise for another non-Hindu should
not be entirely unexpected.

For that matter, some on the list have repeatedly asserted that Rohit is a
non-Hindu, though the person in question preferred to let the argument, on
the list, merrily go on.

Rajiv's friendliness with Benazir has to be seen in the background of the
fact that, after all, he and Sanjay were both Muslims.

Unpalatable truths these. The world over, it is a policy not to rake up the
past or slay past heros [with the  major exception of the world's greatest
psecs, the communists. Remember the posthumous slaying of Stalin, Mao,
Khruschev etc.]

In Indian culture, additionally, we don't talk ill of the dead. Hence, I
have just alluded to known facts [consciously forgotten by Indians, whether
wisely or unwisely], without any intention of harping upon them.



MCG

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On 1/8/08, pmwalunjkar@aol.in  wrote:
>
> Following article was recently published by Francois Gautier the editor in
> chief of Paris-based La Revue de l'Inde.
>
> Francois Gautier | December 31, 2007 | 16:11 IST
>
> Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Benzair Bhutto as 'one of the
> outstanding leaders of our sub-continent, who always looked for
> reconciliation between India and Pakistan'.
>
> Most magazines are doing cover stories on her.
>
> Bhutto is on the verge of becoming a 'martyr of democracy'.? It is a? sad
> that a mother of three children was so brutally killed and we all mourn her
> terrible death.
>
> Nevertheless, truth must be told.? For, as usual, what the press says is
> not exactly what happened.
>
> Firstly, under Bhutto, anti-Indian terrorism in the Kashmir region was
> fostered and increased.? Benazir was also directly responsible for the
> ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kashmir.
>
> "She was instrumental in sponsoring Jihad, openly inciting militants to
> intensify terrorism in India," says Ajai Sahni, the executive director of
> the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management.? "I find it very
> difficult to discover a single element with her relationship to India that
> is positive and for the betterment of her country or the region," he adds.
>
> Remember how she was shouting her slogans of Azaadi, and exhorting the
> people of Kashmir to cut Jagmohan, then governor of the state, into pieces,
> as in "jag-jag, mo-mo, han-han".? She would say this while making chopping
> motions with her right hand as it moved from her left wrist to the elbow,
> leaving nobody in any doubt as to what she meant.
>
> Secondly, under Bhutto, the Taliban formed and, helped by Pakistan's
> intelligence service, swept across Afghanistan and later hosted Osama bin
> Laden.? It is a bit of an irony that she may have been killed by the very
> people she helped foster if at all she was murdered.
>
> Thirdly, she deliberately increased tension levels and then threatened
> India with a pre-emptive nuclear strike.? The tension peaked when Bhutto
> repeated her late father's immortal boast of waging a 1,000-year war against
> India. Even Rajiv Gandhi was forced to mock her in Parliament, asking if
> those who talked of a 1,000-year war could last even a 1,000 hours.
>
> And fourthly, in her last speech before she died, she alluded to India as
> one of the threats Pakistan had to face, implying that if she was elected
> she would deal firmly with it.
>
> Then why is it that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls her a friend of
> India and that Indians mount candlelight vigils in the Gateway of India for
> her?
>
> I interviewed Benazir Bhutto twice, the second time as she was campaigning
> to be re-elected for a second term:
>
> The first question I asked, was about Kashmir, as she was the one who had
> called for Azad Kashmir, a Kashmir free from India, which had triggered the
> ethnic cleansing of most of the Hindus of the Valley of Kashmir -- 400,000
> of them had to flee their ancestral land. "You know," she answered, "You
> have to understand the Pakistani point of view on Kashmir.? If one goes by
> the logic of Partition, then at least the Kashmir valley, which is in great
> majority Muslim -- and it should be emphasised that for long the Hindus
> Pundits in Kashmir exploited and dominated the Muslims, who are getting back
> at them today -- should have reverted to Pakistan.? But let us say that
> officially we want to help grant Kashmiris their right to
> self-determination."
>
> "That's the only reason?" I continued. "No," answered Benazir.? "It should
> be clear also that Pakistan never forgot the humiliating loss of Bangladesh
> at the hands of India, although India claims it only helped Bangladesh to
> gain its freedom in the face of what the Bangladeshis say was Pakistani
> genocide.? Zia's emergence was a result of that humiliation." "But Zia
> hanged your father?" I interrupted. "Yes and I hate him and God the almighty
> already punished him for that," said Benazir, alluding to Zia's death in a
> plane crash.? "But Zia did one thing right, he started the whole policy of
> proxy war by supporting the separatist movements in Punjab and Kashmir, as a
> way of getting back at India."
>
> "And what about Pakistan's nuclear bomb?" I asked. "That's my father's
> work," she said proudly.? "He realised, after? having lost the 1965 and 1971
> wars with India, that both numerically and strategically, we can never beat
> India in a conventional conflict. Thus he initiated the programme by saying
> that 'We will get the nuclear bomb, even if we have to eat grass'." "But is
> it not a dangerous weapon if it falls in the hands of the fundamentalists of
> your country?" I asked. "No such danger," Benazir answered."? Anyway, it is
> not only a deterrent against India's military conventional superiority and
> an answer to India's own nuclear capability, but also the ultimate weapon to
> re-assert Islam's moral superiority."
>
> "We in Europe are going to unite in a Common Market, why don't Pakistan
> and India forget their differences and form some kind of confederation with
> other South Asian countries, instead of killing each other?" I asked.
> "Pakistan and India were never one country," answered the imperious lady."?
> They were only kept together by force, whether by Mauryan, Moghul or British
> rule.? Hindus have recognised the reality of Islam, and we needed our own
> country to feel free."
>
> I was flabbergasted: here was a lady educated in Oxford and Harvard, who
> mouthed such irrational statements.? She spoke good English, was pretty,
> articulate and pleased the press. But when in power, she had to resort to
> anti-Indianism to please her voters.? Her husband was known as Mr. 10 Per
> Cent.? She was hounded out of power twice for incompetence and corruption.
>
> Is she then a martyr of democracy?
>
> History will tell.
>
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