Compounding the unspeakable personal tragedy that has befallen
Pakistan, with one fifth of our country under water in the greatest
floods in our history that have put almost five million people out of
their homes, there are those within Pakistan and abroad who would seek
to exploit this humanitarian disaster for political gain.
Unfortunately, the Huffington Post enabled this base, moral outrage
when it ran Shirin Sadeghis September 9, 2010 posting, $11-Million
Monument to Benazir Bhutto: APPROVED, which is an unfortunate but
obvious part of an ongoing nasty campaign against the democratically
elected PPP government that preceded the floods and will probably
continue long after the waters have receded.There will always be
those, in almost any society, who will actually believe almost
anything said about the political opposition while Shirin Sadeghi is a
lucid example. I dont know which sort of haterd he has in his heart.
No one can forget the great sacrifice of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed. Why
Sadeghi fail to recall the courageous life and democratic achievements
of the popular leader at the launch of a documentary on her
life.Benazir Bhutto gave the people a hope for future of their
country.Sadeghis post has nothing in it except a recycling, with a
clever twist, of information from the announcement about the plans to
build a memorial to honor the former Prime Minister announced two
years ago. The twist in the story is somehow connecting the cost of
the project to the current flood situation, thereby intentionally
making the government look insensitive and indifferent.
