Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto is dead; the latest victim of the turmoil in Pakistan. She, along with around 20 others who will forever be nameless and hence forgotten by history, was killed in Rawalpindi. Rawalpindi is the heartland of Pakistan's military establishment. There may or may not be a message in that.

Expect the myth-making to flow in earnest. Perhaps the best 'obituary' is this piece written by Tariq Ali before Bhutto died. It wasn't meant as an obituary, which is why it is perhaps more honest than the standard Hollywood accounts.