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Hope For Subcontinent Gone

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 2, 2008

Most chronological details on Benazir Bhutto start in 1988 when she was sworn as the prime minister of Pakistan. But I remember her more as a 19-year old girl who in 1972 accompanied her father, Zulfiqar Bhutto, then president of Pakistan, to sign the Simla peace agreement with the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She instantly became the sweetheart of India - she represented the hope that the future generation of Indians and Pakistanis will live in peace.

Although India and Pakistan have not been in a full-scale war since 1971, we have not been the best of neighbors with major issues such as militancy and civil war in Kashmir, bomb blastings and limited trade. With the glimmer of hope which Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan had given to the Indian subcontinent gone, we may have to wait yet another generation for peace to prevail.

AUTAR KAW

Tampa

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