Immaterial, Material, Immaterial, Material....

Unless you have been living on a deserted island the past three days, you probably know about the tragic events of 27 December 2007 at Pakistan. What the more media savvy and informed of you all also probably know is that there has been "violence" in all parts of the country and reaction to the murder—nay—assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

She may not have been a saint, however, we all recognize her as the bravest, most courageous political leader Pakistan has seen. All this said (and one can go on and on enumerating the effect of this woman's life and death on Pakistan), one wonders at the military government's (I refuse to call it anything but that) goons and their claims of how she died. Their latest pearl of wisdom for us is that it is immaterial as to HOW she died. What matters is WHO did it. My five-year-old cousin can most probably figure this one out...why would a government not want to find out how the country's most national, unifying of leaders was killed?

I fail to comprehend people (there are a handful of them ... quite vocal) who will go to great lengths to blame the party, the media and, guess what? THE VICTIM! I ask this: despite her insistence for security, she was not provided any (and this I can debate for a few hours if you want); despite her insistence for Scotland Yard or FBI to investigate the Karachi bombing, the government refused.

What is the government so scared of? If our intelligence is so amazing that within a few hours of her assassination, they intercept a long telephonic conversation between Taliban’s leaders, claiming they killed her, why don’t we just pick them up and arrest them? Okay, so they say that’s impossible.