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BENAZIR AND INDIA: Francois Gautier

She resorted to anti-Indianism to please voters ( rediff.com ) http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/dec/31gautier.htm Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday described her as " one of the outstanding leaders of our sub-continent, who always looked for reconciliation between India and Pakistan ." It is a sad that a mother of three children was so brutally killed and we all mourn her terrible death. Nevertheless, truth must be told. For, as usual, what the press says is not exactly what happened. Firstly, under Bhutto, anti-Indian terrorism in the Kashmir region was fostered and increased. Benazir was also directly responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kashmir. "She was instrumental in sponsoring jihad, openly inciting militants to intensify terrorism in India," says Ajai Sahni, the executive director of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management. "I find it very difficult to discover a single element with her relationship to India that is posi

The Legacy of Benazir Bhutto: Pakistan's Proxy Wars, Islamic Jihad and the Taliban

The most horrific acts of terror in recent times has just been in the neighbouring pakistan. Benazir Bhutto the former PM of Pakistan has been killed in an allegged Alqaida attack. FACT prays for peace to her soul. Another high profile victim for the fundamentalism and another round of applause for the fundamentalism from the stupidity. The Legacy of Benazir Bhutto: Pakistan's Proxy Wars, Islamic Jihad and the Taliban by Dr. Subhash Kapila Benazir Bhutto twice ousted as Prime Minister of Pakistan, prompted by fears of arrest is presently in self-imposed exile in Dubai for the last two years. Sensing that elections may be held by the Pakistan Army next year and with a political vacuum existing due to banishment of the last Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, she has been active in running around Western countries subtly projecting that she is the only viable civilian alternative to head Pakistan. With the inauguration of President Bush in Washington, she has already visited Washington in F