Is this what we want?

The Podcast

Something which must have been thought of as a novel intention has not materialised to such. The idea of steering the genesis of a country from scratch in the mould of the Islamic Constitution must have excited many who were hellbent on enforcing God's laws and justice on Earth.  Sadly, 70 years after its establishment, what we see is chaos, killings, vengeance, violence and lawlessness. The head does not know what the team is doing. The tail is working autonomously at a spinal level, and the puppet of the administration is controlled by invisible but invincible strings of which nobody has any clue.

Recently, BBC World Service completed a 10-part weekly podcast series which was an investigative journalism piece by a senior correspondence, Owen Bennett Jones, on the assassination of Pakistani's 2007 Prime Minister in waiting, Benazir Bhutto. Jones had had many intimate one-on-one interviews with Bhutto and her family before and after the murder.

With a fine tooth comb, he meticulously examined interviews, footages surrounding the assassination and the multiple prior failed attempts, telephone interception recordings and transcripts of dialogues as well as reports from intelligence officers. There was even a United Nations-led investigation surrounding Bhutto's slaying. Despite the thorough scrutiny, the whole probe proved to be an exercise in futility. Conflicting hearsays from ISI team, the ruling junta and the informants just gave a tailspin to the entire imbroglio. Despite clear-cut evidence of the suspected person responsible for the killing, nobody dares to pursue the matter, fearing their own physical or political survival. People who are allegedly dead turn up alive over the border in just a couple of days. And many individuals involved in this high profile case also turned up in body bags. Each arm of the administration seems to be clueless or apathetic about the actions of the other. Perhaps, each of them is suspicious of other. The police give a picture of either incompetence or helplessness.

At the end of the day, the people responsible for her death in an apparent suicide bombing by a fifteen-year-old madrasah student is still at large. The suspects include the former President Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani Army, the ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence), Pakistani Taliban, Al Queda and even Benazir Bhutto's husband, Azil Zardari, for he later became the party leader!

The rule of law in this country is best described as fractured. It is a lesson for countries around the region. We, in Malaysia, should be apprehensive about the movement of many of their citizens seamlessly into and out of our country at will. Furthermore, many of our girls are charmed by their close to Bollywood charm and fall flat at their pheromonic appeal. Our country will be their new base for their nefarious activities and to spread their pervasive ideologies.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42409374

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