Pakistan Govts may fail, but not people - Fatima Bhutto

By Team Mangalorean Bangalore

Bangalore April 5, 2010: Outspoken Pakistani political activist Fatima Bhutto today said the South Asian country had emerged as a ''monster of a nation'' due to political violence and strife and it should see the end of the ''dynastic rule'' to become a true democratic power.

Speaking after the release of her book ''Songs of Blood and Sword'', a memoir of the country ''driven'' by murder, corruption, conspiracy and division, here, she said the people of Pakistan deserved relief from ''lack of accessibility'' and not become immune to corruption.

''If corruption rules, a country will become Boy's Club and a Mafia's heaven. This should never happen to Pakistan or any other country in the region,'' she lamented.

She was, however, highly optimistic of Pakistan's future, like her father Mir Murtaza Bhutto was, and said, ''Government's may have failed in Pakistan, but people will never, I hope.'' After witnessing gory and blood throughout her life when she had to go through murders of her father, grand father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and aunt Benazir Bhutto, she, however, said she would never want to do the same to what people did to her family, nor would like to see such tragedies affecting the families of the people who were behind the political murder of her father.

Her comments comes in the wake of the political murder of her father with current Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari accused of behind the crime, but subsequently absolved of the charge.

She was harsh in her criticism of the US making political interference in Pakistan, while she believed that relations between Pakistan and India should be built on people to people interaction and contacts.

Fatima said family legacy remained a dear word in Pakistan and it had undone the progress and ushered in violence and untold family grief. ''It so happened in my country that a Bhutto had to be killed to get another Bhutto at the helm. Imposition of a family or two to rule a country is a very dangerous trend indeed,'' she said while answering a question on the legacy of family rule, both in Pakistan and India.

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