Rahmon conveys his condolences to Pakistan
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Today president Rahmon sent a telegram of condolence to president Musharaff of Pakistan upon the death of Benazir Bhutto.
As it was reported by AsiaPlus, president Rahmon underlined in his telegram that this vile act one more time proved that terrorism does not have national or religious implications but rather it is a shameful phenomenon which needs to be fought by the whole human kind.
Tajikistan always adheres to the idea of deadly struggle against this evil, said the president of Tajikistan.
[inspic=12,right,,150]The news about the assassination of Butto was accepted in Tajikistan as a great sorrow. People are talking about her all the day. It is the most discussed news in Tajikistan today. Here people know her as a beautiful and courageous woman who wanted a better future for her people.
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FYI, Nathan’s registan.net has a few thoughtful threads on it.
“Here people know her as a beautiful and courageous woman who wanted a better future for her people.”
They all pretend to want ‘a better future for the people’. Let’s not be naive and turn Bhutto into the saint and the savior that she was definitely not. I’m not happy with her death for sure but fact is that her own reigns as prime minister in the late ’80s and ’90s were characterised by extreme corruption, clan politics and ego wars with soap opera proporions, and mismanagement.
She was no ‘new political wind’, but rather an exponent of a rotten political culture that eventually paved the way for Musharaf’s coup d’état in 1999 and for ‘religious radicalisation’. The whole Benazir myth was basically created by the glamour press and liberal salons who assumed that a Western-educated woman in power in a Muslim country automatically stands for ‘better governance’.
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Well, I’m not turning Benazir ‘into the saint and the savior’, ;) but most of the people in Tajikistan condemn her murderers. OK, I’m not talking on behalf of all the Tajiks but all the people that I talked to after her assassination were very much saddened.
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