Benazir Bhutto represented a utopian Pakistan, or at least the hope that Pakistan was on its way to modernization, replete with its many pledges to America to help battle Islamic terrorism. But the truth is that Pakistan is a state funder of terrorism, playing a dangerous double game. The assassination of Bhutto was no aberration for Pakistan. A poll in 2007 after her murder revealed that “67 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden,” reflecting the true face of Pakistan.
Pakistan jihadists detested Bhutto, as she epitomized characteristics of the West. She was “Western-educated and charismatic,” and she “presented herself as a moderate, democratic force” who stood against jihad militants.
This past summer, Pakistan was said to be “rattled” over Trump’s appeal for help from India in Afghanistan. Mistrust in Pakistan has been enduring. Even prior to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, “American officials chided Pakistan’s military and intelligence agency as harboring or turning a blind eye to militants” and now Trump is losing patience with Pakistan, commenting that America is “paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting.”
America will be a much richer country by defunding jihadist entities such as Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority, and pulling out of the Islamic supremacist-dominated United Nations.
“‘Osama bin Laden Shifted to Afghanistan to Supervise Plot to Assassinate Benazir Bhutto'”, News 18 (Thanks to The Religion of Peace), November 28, 2017:
Karachi: Al-Qaeda’s slain chief Osama bin Laden had shifted to Afghanistan to supervise a plot to assassinate Pakistan’s former premier Benazir Bhutto and then military dictator Pervez Musharraf, a media report said on Thursday.
Citing intelligence gathered by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), the News reported that the explosives to execute this plot were provided by the courier of bin Laden.
Bhutto was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack during an election campaign rally on December 27, 2007 outside the Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi. The revelation comes exactly on the 10th anniversary of Bhutto’s assassination.
This information was provided to the Interior Ministry in December 2007 by the Army and the ISI in three reports and the letters obtained from the bin Laden’s residence.
In these secret intelligence reports, the ministry was warned that bin Laden had issued orders to kill then President Musharraf, Pakistan People’s Party’s chief Bhutto and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Fazlur Rehman, the paper said.
The most important letter by the ISI to the Interior Ministry was written on December 19, 2007; the letter was directed to the Interior Ministrys then-director coordination of the Crisis Management Cell Colonel Muhammad Imran Yaqub, the paper said, citing the documents.
The letter, titled ‘President Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto and Fazlur Rehman’s murder plan’, signed by Lt Col (retd) Zaigham Islam Butt for DG Intelligence said bin Laden has issued the order to kill Musharraf, Bhutto and Rehman.
“He (Osama bin Laden) has planned to send his courier, who is a national of Pakistan and a resident of Multan, named Musa Tariq, through Waziristan with explosives to be used in executing the murder plots. On coming Sunday which is December 22 this person will be in the area of Dera Ismail Khan,” the letter read.
“Osama bin Laden is personally supervising this entire plan and for this reason, he has shifted to Afghanistan,” read the last three lines of the letter.
The ISI had requested the interior ministry to make urgent security arrangements, the paper said, adding that this information was so important that the copies of this letter were also dispatched to the Military Intelligence Directorate, GS Branch and General Headquarters, Rawalpindi.
After receiving the letter, the General Staff Branch of the Military Operations Directorate of General Headquarters, on the next day December 20, 2007 sent a letter to then-interior secretary Syed Kamal Shah.
Six days before Bhutto’s assassination, another letter was issued with the signature of then-chief of the general staff Lt-Gen Salahuddin Satti’s Lt-Col Staff Khurram Shahzad, warning about the terror plot.
Following the assassination of Bhutto, a short letter was sent to bin Laden after two days.
“We have taken revenge for our brothers and sisters of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid,” read the letter which was recovered from bin Laden’s home….
Mac-101 says
I believe Benazir Bhutto had stated in her last campaign two weeks before she was killed that Bin laden was killed in the mountains of Boro Boro back in 2001 or thereabouts. Has anyone ever seen pictures of Bin Laden’s kidney dialysis machine in his Pakistani Compound where he was killed at? Was he miraculously cured?
mortimer says
Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? THE MASTERMINDS OF THE ASSASSINATION
https://www.dawn.com/news/1378568
Michael Clark says
Master minds, was Paki government opposition, Bhutto’s protection detail slowed and backed off a few minutes before the attack. Do not need a dialysis machine on sight, also either way with out absolute proof this story will be speculated on for years to come. The quiet professionals chose to be pre-modanas, and the former admin needed a PR boost. ETC either way the photos leaked on the net were fake, but the possibility remains that Bin laden is dead either by the french accounts in the early 2000’s or by former administration which recent revelations proved up to time of death he was being supported by the Paki’s and Suadi’s. One thing to be clear on regardless he was used as a rasheed for further recruitment.
Phil Copson says
“…letters obtained from bin Laden’s residence…”
Letters from whom ? in particular, who sent the “We have taken revenge…” letter ?
The article is written from a Western stand-point, where it is assumed that all these different organisations would have worked together to safeguard Miss Bhutto: However, given the support for jihadi terrorism and political violence at government level in that country, you also have to consider the possibility that it was being referred upwards in case somebody wished to give it the nod at higher level. (“Find out all about it, but don’t actually arrest anybody until afterwards…”)
Bin Laden was not holed-up in Pakistan without various decision-makers being complicit.
Even people who aren’t involved in planning an atrocity, don’t mind benefiting from it; witness the utterly abhorrent way in which UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the “Remain” campaign sought to exploit the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, both then and ever since, pulling every tacky publicity-seeking trick in the book from a Princess Di-style funeral, flowers in her seat in Parliament, suspending the referendum campaign, blaming her death on Nigel Farage, etc etc, all in the hopes of derailing Brexit.
Would this have happened had Miss Cox supported Brexit ? Absolutely not. (And had they succeeded in de-railing Brexit, they would have regarded her death as having been very worthwhile, just as the establishment regard the islamisation of Europe as being a good swop for a fat salary and an easy life.)
mortimer says
Christine Douglass-Williams has made a strong case to defund Pakistan. It denies human rights of women and minorities. It is a false friend nurtured the jihadist vipers that US must then destroy at a great cost.
Makes no sense to fund the terrorists through Pakistan. No doubt US intelligence knows the whole mess. The US should insist on the right of final disapproval in the matter of promoting Pakistan military personnel.
Ahem says
I have absolutely no sympathy at all for an unclean spirit like Benazir Bhutto.
Years ago I watched a Youtube of her in front of a post Friday muslim prayer crowd in which she exhorted her fellow Pakistani muslims to seek out and attack anyone they could find from the now almost extinct Hindu community.
She is probably remembered with great fondness by her fellow students at Harvard as the lovely lady from Pakistan who baked a giant cake in the shape of a hockey puck for the Harvard ice skating team.
None of those Ivy League nitwits would ever have been made aware of her murderous activities in Pakistan as they most probably keep themselves “informed” of world events by reading such lying filth newspapers like the NY Times or the Wash. Post.
Chand says
Yes, she was passionately anti-India and completely supported the facilitation of Kashmiri jihadi groups. Although there are legitimate concerns about the plight of Indian Kashmiris and the huge army presence there, it does not at all justify the activities of these Jihadis also targeting civilians as a terror strategy alongside the attacks on the Indian army.