Abbottabad Series-Part 4:’Daughter Of Destiny’ by Benazir Bhutto

Excerpts from ‘Daughter of Destiny’ By Benazir Bhutto:

“The summer heat turned my cell into an oven. My skin split and peeled, coming off my hands in sheets. Boils erupted on my face. My hair, which had always been thick, began to come out by the handful. Insects crept into the cell like invading armies.
Grasshoppers, mosquitoes, stinging flies, bees and bugs came up through the cracks in the floor and through the open bars from the courtyard. Big black ants, cockroaches, seething clumps of little red ants and spiders. I tried pulling the sheet over my head at night to hide from their bites, pushing it back when it got too hot to breathe.”

After her six month imprisonment in Sukkur jail, she remained hospitalized for months after which she was shifted to Karachi Central Jail, where she remained imprisoned until December 11, 1981. She was then placed under house arrests in Larkana and Karachi eleven and fourteen months respectively.

She was assassinated on 27 December 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008 in which she was a leading opposition candidate.
The following year, she was named one of seven winners of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.
Continue reading about the life, and fate and destiny of the Bhutto Family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto

I cannot believe for one moment, that while Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in her own country, Osama Ben Laden, an international fugitive from justice, and a stranger, was living incognito, in Abbottabad, Pakistan for the last 4 years, without the knowledge of the Pakistani authorities, no matter how much they may deny tha fact, especially since his whereabouts were known to the international Intelligence. But this is a personal point of view: to allow a person to articulate such opinions many people gave up their lives, fought for generations, and now try to hang on to the right to express such views, especially when they might help their pursuit of happiness: Political, Cultural and Economical.

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