As Gordon Brown said earlier "A sad day for democracy", She did not have much power, but may well have done after the elections due for January 8th. What happens at the elections now ( if they have them ) will be interesting.

She's powerful in the sense that she's become a symbol of freedom for many Pakistanis who oppose President Pervez Musharraf's leadership. I think her assassination is a big world issue because she is a prominent figure in Pakistan, a staunch ally of the USA in its war on terror. Pakistan plays a crucial role in the maintenance of peace and order in South Asia and the nearby Middle East. Her death could embolden terrorists hiding in the mountains on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

Ill be completely honest and say I had never heard of her before today.

I question if her rival Musharraf had a hand in it for he has the most to gain with her out of the way.She had a powerful party and oppossed Musharraf. He had the most to gain with her gone.

Who's asking these questions? Who's answering them? Children? I hope you're just doing this for practice and not for grades. "(1) Do you have any thoughts on Benazir Bhutto's being assassinated? (2) Do you think this will affect anything? (3) Did she really hold that much power?" Still not that good a set-up, but at least it's grammatically correct. Kiddies, if you turned in homework written as poorly as the set-ups are, you'd be red-marked repeatedly by me if you're past the fourth grade. ---------------------------- (1) Of course I have some thoughts on her assassination. Inane and superfluous question. Someone without thoughts on her assassination would be unlikely to have anything pertinent to offer. (Carping about the way questions are posed and whether or not the set-up is grammatically correct is non-contributory. Yes, I do know that's the case.) (2) Of course it will have an effect; her assassination is likely to affect Pakistani politics more than anything else. (3) Although Bhutto currently held no political office, she had considerable political influence in a nation of more than 150,000,000 people. In politics, as in other endeavors, influence is power.

I was sadden, but not surprised one bit. I knew there was no way in hell the Prime Minster of Pakistan was going to let her make it to an election and then share power with her. I'll bet with in the next few months it's going to come out he was behind it and used Al Queada to do his dirty work for him.

Aw, crap... God help us if Pakistan gets taken over by the Islamofascists - they have nukes.