BHUTTO ASSASINATION WHAT NEXT?

Recent spate of insurgent killings in Pakistan have metmorphed into the assassination of benazir Bhutto, former prime minister and one of the most powerful presidential contenders in the would be upcoming elections had all the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda. While Pakistanis are weeping, the west is pondering on the next move that would stabilize nuclear riddled Pakistan on verge of civil unrest. www.financialtimes.com

There is much at stake most especially that the west does not have anybody to trust but obliged to work with the equally unpredictable musharaff.Al-Qaeda have not found musharaff’s regime so problematic and as such managed to mobilize and invigorate themselves, insiders believe the exacerbation of the situation is actually the west‘s making with America pumping billions in Pakistan to help contain insurgents, which funds have been claimed to be diverted by government of Pakistan strengthen the vice on the opposition keeping a blind eye on the insurgents.

There has been a dramatic increase in what the west considers a breeding ground for al-Qaeda “Madrasas” during musharaff’s regime, the north which borders Afghanistan is play ground to many an insurgent and the territory is overlapping nature is a night mare where Americans and Pakistani forces have had running battles with insurgents with limited success.It’s about time for musharaff’s darlings in the west to realise that insurgency is gaining an upper hand, strengthening by the day. One can not help thinking of what would it be like to have Al-Qaeda bragging about having weapons of mass destruction while strolling the Pakistani corridors of power like Hamas has done in Palestine.

The world would better off with a nuclear Iran or now more docile lesser dangerous North Korea than having a crazier Al-Qaeda sympathetic regime rising to power in Pakistan.There is a big worry in the white house and in the EU that a volatile Pakistani could spillover into surrounding countries equally unstable and throw it into turmoil.What would be the fate of NATO forces in Afghanistan with aggression against them being upped with help across thee border? What would be the relationship of Volatile hostile Pakistan with nuclear India with whom they have had boarder skirmishes in the past?The insurgents have managed to win Pakistani hearts by convincing them that the war on terror is an American war, a foreign and most of all external aggression against Islam.

The formulae has worked and transformed tribal chiefs into covering up for the insurgents or even joining forces. Hours before her assassination, Bhutto had been meeting Karzai and reiterated to work hand in hand stump out insurgents from the country and their common boarders, on her would be last campaign trail she had sternly warned the militants that their days were numbers in the Pakistani back yard, no wonder they had to do it right.

Kill her before she became too powerful to kick them around.Now with Al-Qaeda changing tactics in Iraq, Revitalized in Afghanistan and now regrouping in Pakistani is cause enough to keep the next American president busy enough like bush has always been. The slogan will always have to remain “take battle to the insurgents than wait for them to knock on your door” it could be that lethal, everybody has at least heard of September 11, the Madrid bombing and the London carnage all courtesy of Al-Qaeda Inc.