Shaheed Muhtarma Benazir Bhutto

Shaheed Muhtarma Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto waves to her supporters during an election campaign in the southern city of Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan on Monday, Dec. 24, 2007. Bhutto said her agenda was "to empower the people, to educate the people, to provide employment opportunity the people, to end the energy shortage that we have in the country

Did we ever deserve you?--A tribute to Benazir Bhutto

By Masood Lohar

You lived as “Daughter of East”
You died as “Mother of Peace”
Zulfi was right naming you Benazir
Matchless you are, with ironical ease
Karbala comes with a face new
Did we ever deserve you?

Five years and a few days
That was all you ruled Pakistan
What so little we had to offer
You gave your life for Pakistan
This is all mourners’ view
Did we ever deserve you?

They say you had self-interest
For, your struggle was power lust
This may not surprise any man
They said the same thing about Imam Hussain
In this treacherous world, this is not new
Did we ever deserve you?

They said you were security risk
For patriotism, one has to be khaki
All letters of ABC are given to the League
Our hidden hands need mediocrity
Couple of Mullahs and PML Q
Did we ever deserve you?

Million jackals’ howling
Subsides in one lion’s roar
But this world is made like that
People only ear to malicious uproar
Both are separate, water and dew
Did we ever deserve you

Benazir Bhutto Shaheed