If circumstances were different, what Nawaz Sharif has said in his Larkana address would have sounded strange. But as it happens, he was right on spot. The murderers of Benazir Bhutto have surely not been booked while no visible progress seems to be taking place to do the same. Instead of promising to hold those responsible for her murder, her party leaders are busy cashing in on her name and sympathy.
This strangely is also what Nawaz Sharif has done. He has also sounded a chord that though is populist yet might not result in any tangible results. If he was unable to bring the dictator who evicted him from his prime minister-ship, and under whose watch Benazir was murdered, how could he hope to do so in a province where his party has but only a meagre presence? Nevertheless, it is clever politics, these populist slogans.
AHMED ALI
Lahore
