Making a Mockery of Democracy I read the whole article by William Dalrymple after reading Mr. Gill's and I found it highly informative. Truth is that both these articles must have hurt the feelings of Diehard PPP fans as can be seen from the comments. Somebody mentioned about democracy as revenge quote was just a metaphor from an awkward nervous 19 year old kid. Well everybody knows that these were not his words. He was quoting his mother who was not 19 years old when she made this statement and yes actually BB did took revenge not from the military but from the whole nation. Her two terms were some kind of punishment for the whole of the nation in which she looted the already poor and pitiable pakistanis with both hands. Since her return from exile and sometime before that she had been making strange comments like that if she was in power 9/11 would not have taken place. Hmmmm ..... a lady who could not save her brother from being killed ruthlessly by her husband in her own term as PM how could have she saved the world from such a disaster. She also claimed that only she was capable enough to save the world from the horrors of Talibanisation but she only failed to mention that it was she who was responsible for the birth of Talibans and also it was her interior minister who reffered to Talibans as his boys. Only reason she gave for her failures during her two terms was that intelligence agencies were not letting her do her job. So if she was not capable of handling the ISI and MI then she should have stayed away from politics afterwards rather than making lame excuses and still campaining to be prime minister for third time ( A prime minister who would have again laid the blame on agencies for her incompetency). She was a champion of democracy who felt no shame in bequeathing a political party to her son and husband (Mr 10 %) well this is something that signifies in what kind of democracy she and her father believed in. Krashid truly enlightend us by telling that her father took control of diminished pakistan. Well he was one of those who were responsible for the "Diminished Pakistan". He along with Yahya were the ones who refused to hand over the power to Shiekh Mujeeb although he had almost double the parliamentry seats(160 to be exact whereas Mr Bhutto's party had won 81 NA seats). As a true democratic leader he refused to let those people form the Governemt in center who had the majority. His slogans like "Udher tum idher Hum" and threats of breaking the legs of those who went to Dhaka havnt been forgotten by many. Since the inception of PPP only the Bhutto's have been Lucky enough to grace the throne of this party. Benazir Bhutto nominated her husband as party chairman in her will as if it was not a political party rather her personal property. and her husband nominated his 19 year old son about whom he said that nobody should ask him any questions directly as he was at tender age (well he has credentials to be the chairman of the party but the young lad is not able to answer questions of journalist due to his immaturity ....hmmmm). Truth is he is not chairman rather he is monarch because political leaders are choosen on thier abilities not the will of their dead mothers(or fathers). PPP leadership can go to any extent to keep the power. They can even change their caste just to gather sympathies and to be the nominal chairperson as Bilawal who was once a Zardari is now a Bhutto. Now we have a co-chairperson of PPP in the form of Mr Asif Zardari better known as Mr ten percent who might be the next premier . So it is chance for him to improve on his past record and be Mr twenty percent.