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Tassawur · #1 Wednesday, December 26, 2018

December Wounds .

Published in Daily Pakistan Today.
25.12.2018

T. S. Eliot said, "April is the cruelest month”. However, when it comes to our homeland, December has always remained the cruelest. Be that dismemberment of our beloved country in 1971, heinous massacre of APS School or the assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the wounds December has afflicted on Pakistan are beyond any healing.

On this cruel day of December 27th, Benazir departed. She died amidst her supporters who revered her and from whom she derived her strength and her legitimacy as a leader. No amount of condemnation could compensate for the sense of loss that filled millions of hearts across the land that day who were robbed of the jewel in their crown. I can't forget how bitterly I wept during the darkness of that night in the room of my hostel in Sargodha.

What a gem of a person she was who epitomized courage and courted death. It was she who knew that despite immense dangers how important it was to reclaim the political space which had been lost to the extremists by the policies of military dictators and their offspring. And she returned defying all dangers from dictator and fanatics, both of whom she had valiantly challenged.

The reception accorded to her as she returned home, ending her years in exile on October 18, was a demonstration of selfless dedication and unprecedented devotion by her supporters who had pinned all their hope in her person. She knew that she would be targeted and her supporters were also aware well that they would be deprived of their jewel and her processions could be made target of terror and violence. Yet, neither could she be deterred nor her supporters disappointed her and they thronged each and every venue she appeared at. Such was their bond.

It was the tenacity of Ms Bhutto, the politician par excellence, that she kept her father’s political legacy alive in a male-dominated society. Mr. Bhutto had championed the popular cause and had given a sense of dignity to the common man in Pakistan and her daughter kept that banner flown at full mast.

The impacts of her murder will continue to haunt our political and social scene for decades to come. What is very clear is that, Pakistan’s political landscape has never remained the same having lost one of its finest daughters.

Tasawar Abbas Bosal
Mandi Bahauddin

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