According to an article by Alamgir Hussain, Benazir was a fomenter of Jihadism in the days of her office as Prime Minister. Yet she came back to Pakistan to attempt a middle ground for Pakistanis by being the voice of democratic institutions which diametrically opposite of the Theo-Political ideology of Jihad-Islamism.
One could extrapolate her agenda was not as saintly as the image she tried to project to the West. I suspect the wily female politician saw an opportunity to play the military and the Islamists and form a position of power with an image of secularism. In other words her motive was not to seal democracy but to self-aggrandize power for the Bhutto family. I suspect her miscalculation was that Islamists have infiltrated the Pakistan military and Intelligence community with Islamist sympathizers.
I suspect her assassination was the result of Islamists not appreciating a woman leader and a divided military (Islamist sympathizers and traditional elitist secularists) not wanting to tolerate a Bhutto insertion into Pakistani politics.
Bhutto’s murder smacks of a good old fashioned conspiracy theory that I doubt the complete truth of who the murder conspirators were will be known for some time.
JRH
One could extrapolate her agenda was not as saintly as the image she tried to project to the West. I suspect the wily female politician saw an opportunity to play the military and the Islamists and form a position of power with an image of secularism. In other words her motive was not to seal democracy but to self-aggrandize power for the Bhutto family. I suspect her miscalculation was that Islamists have infiltrated the Pakistan military and Intelligence community with Islamist sympathizers.
I suspect her assassination was the result of Islamists not appreciating a woman leader and a divided military (Islamist sympathizers and traditional elitist secularists) not wanting to tolerate a Bhutto insertion into Pakistani politics.
Bhutto’s murder smacks of a good old fashioned conspiracy theory that I doubt the complete truth of who the murder conspirators were will be known for some time.
JRH
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