Benazir Bhutto’s life-long struggle for her party cannot be denied but to say she fought for democracy is a stretch.
LAHORE: Benazir Bhutto’s life-long struggle for her party cannot be denied but to say that she fought for democracy will be stretching the truth. She did not accept the democratic right of her archrival to rule. She challenged Supreme Court decisions, challenged election results, threatened long marches, asked the military to intervene, asked the US not to support the government of Nawaz Sharif and on one occasion, joined hands with former president Ghulam Ishaq Khan and the then army chief, Waheed Kakar, to corner Nawaz Sharif into resigning.
Her government stopped the Karachi Port Trust from providing a berth to an American ship carrying scrap iron for Ittefaq Foundries; the ship remained anchored outside Karachi Port for a whole year. All of this is behaviour unbecoming of a democrat.
Khurshid Anwer
Published in The Express Tribune, December 31st, 2013.
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