Frank Senauth
THE LAST CALL:
Benazir Bhutto knew it was her last call and that call was nearer than she thought. She was sure what the outcome would be, and she was prepared to receive that outcome with open arms. She made her last will and testimony just in case the enviable happened. She knew she had to let go, but that wasn't easy for her to do. She had the great spirit with her and she wanted to fight on. But no matter how she fought, time would bring her down to earth.
Benazir's wish for survival of her country of birth was her last task. She was sure that someone would take her wish away. It would be the `Curse of the Bhutto's name'.
She said just before she died by the hand of an assassin's bullet, `Long Live the Bhutto's Name'.
PROFILE OF FRANK SENAUTH.
Frank Senauth was born in Guyana, South America. In 1973 he emigrated to Canada.
He felt that Canada held better prospects for him. In 1986 he returned to his boyhood dream of becoming a writer. His last book, `The Collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge' , was published in the United States, in 2007 by Outskirts Press.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
It was the first day of Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan, and the people of Pakistan knew days before that she was coming, and they waited for her at the Jinnah International Airport. They really wanted her to have a good turn out and to show her their happy faces. Their Princess Benazir had come back at last. Come back to serve them. They were there to welcome her and to make sure she was safe from any attacks by the Taliban or al-Qaeda. They were the brutes that they had to look out for. They knew that she would have her own security guards to safe- guard her from any assassination. They had to show her the light of the day. She was one of them, and they would rather die for her. They really didn't want it to be her time now. She had to see the light first. They had killed nearly all of her family members and now she was the only one left to carry on in her father's foot-steps, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
When Benazir arrived at the airport, she was surprised to see so many of her people who were waiting for her. She knew they meant well. They were her welcome party and she was grateful that they had taken time off to come to see her in her search for her greatest triumph, ever, in Pakistan. But little did she know they would be some conspirators in the midst of the people, and those persons in their midst would make sure of an early kill. The bad people didn't want Benazir's feet to touch the soil of Pakistan. They wanted to kill her before she was able to return to reality. That was her golden opportunity to be Prime Minister again, and in theory she knew she was born to rule.
That certainly happened on the road to her hometown. Everything was planned and nothing could go wrong, and she would be dead on the road to freedom.
After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Benazir Bhutto felt happy that she was returning to Karachi on October 18, 2007, so as to prepare for the 2008 national elections.
It was en route to a rally in Karachi on October 18, 2007, two explosions occurred shortly after Bhutto had landed, and when she left Jinnnah International Airport. When the bombs went off, she was taken by surprise. She was not injured, but the explosions, later found to be a suicide-bomb attack, and the attack killed 136 people and injured at least 450. The dead included at least 50 of the security guards from her P.P.P., who had formed a human chain around Benazir truck to keep potential bombers away, as well as 6 police officers. A number of senior officials were injured. Bhutto was escorted unharmed from the scene, and she really felt bad about the whole scenario. She really didn't know why so many people had to die for her. She knew it was really a death she couldn't repay, and only destiny would be able to tell her tale.
