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