While addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, President Asif Ali Zardari, before beginning his speech, once again kept a photograph of his late wife and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
General elections in Pakistan are just round the corner. Using an international forum and displaying photograph of one’s political leader amounts to influencing the upcoming general elections and its results.
Nobody is denying the sacrifice of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto for the cause of democracy in Pakistan. But President Asif Ali Zardari is trying to cash in on the death of his wife and Pakistan’s twice elected prime minister. I strongly urge UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to take serious note of this and ask the world leaders participating in the UN General Assembly to stop using this august platform for personal gains in future.
M RAFIQUE ZAKARIA
Karach
