Several days ago, when having dinner with Daphnemaia, her Malay friend (sorry forgot his name), and Adam Zhang, I was asked about my opinion on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

I said that while the media was quick to point out that Al Qaeda is behind the assassination, Pervez Musharraf has as much reasons to want her dead as well. The reason I said this is because, from my understanding, Bhutto was invited to return from exile after the two made a political deal to share power. After all, Musharraf needed her to lend some legitimacy to his rule. His dismissal and subsequent arrest of the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in an attempt to ‘neutralise’ the judiciary’s objection to his rule has not only upset the Pakistani people, but also his chief ally, the U.S.

However, in spite of the power-sharing deal, Bhutto openly criticised Musharraf for declaring a state of emergency – a de facto martial law – and called for street protests. I was in the opinion that if I was Musharraf, that would look very much like a power grab and a stab in the back and it might as motivation for him to have her ‘removed’ .

As I was writing this post, I dig a bit more on Google on this matter and it appears I am not alone in this assessment that Al Qaeda might not be the only one who wants her dead. Let me quote Rev. Jesse Jackson: She [Benazir Bhutto] felt far more threaten by the Musharraf government as she did by Taliban or Al Qaeda.

Anyway, the Pakistan People’s Party said the Pakistani government was trying to cover up its failure to protect her, and a controversy has erupted over how she was killed. The official statement from the Interior Ministry was that she died when the force of the blast from a suicide bomber smashed her head into the sun-roof of her car. However, her supporters said she died from the gunshot wounds in her neck and chest.

Before I end, let me clarify that I am not saying that Musharraf ordered this. After all, Al Qaeda are masters in playing the media themselves so the denial might be fake. But still, for all we know, someone else might be behind this because they have much to gain politically from her death. There’s definitely much more than meets the eye here. Let us just read all the news and take them with a pinch of salt.