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The most repeated lines (three times each) are
I am Zulfikar’s daughter,
My name is Benazir.
Various family members are namechecked, including Asif Ali Zardari (twice).
Other lines, loosely translated, are:
I have passed away,
Don’t hold back your tears,
The question on everyone’s mind is,
Why was I killed?
On that note, the findings of the investigation team from Scotland Yard in Pakistan can amount to little in the absence of an autopsy – let alone an undisturbed crime scene. (The area of the attack was cleared and hosed down immediately).
There are echoes of Diana’s death in the images in this video. 19-year old Bilawal reminds me of William and Harry walking behind their mother’s coffin at her funeral.
I wonder what it feels like to be transported from the peaceful surroundings of a first term amongst the dreaming spires of Oxford to the bloody innards of the PPP in a Pakistan in the grip of election-fever, whilst coming to terms with the loss of your mother.
What was going through Bilawal’s mind as he sat amidst his supporters, half-hidden by a mountain of mics, with his father waving what appeared to be his mother’s will around in front of his face rather insensitively for the press?
The boy, holding back the emotion in his voice, said that the chairmanship of the PPP often results in martyrdom.
A line from the video says,
“I ask you to keep an eye on Bilawal, please keep him in your thoughts.”
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