Dear Editor,

I refer to Vishnu Bisram’s letter captioned “Benazir Bhutto had been corrupt but was a patriot and a leader” (08.01.04).

Yes, leader she was, but I do not know about patriot. Which patriot would steal billions of dollars from their country, especially when most of the people are poor and there is a very high illiteracy rate. Perhaps that is why she was able to do such looting.

I compare her in many respects to Burnham. She appointed herself as “Chairperson for life” of her political party and she was the sole person who could appoint a successor. As Bisram stated, she was indeed a brilliant person. Burnham was very brilliant too, sir.

Bisram continues his indirect attack against Islam by stating “her senseless killing by Islamic fundamentalists has plunged the country into yet another political turmoil”. How does Bisram know who killed Ms. Bhutto? May she rest in peace.

Bisram in his folly also stated that “she gave up this luxury to return to Pakistan to face arrest and death threats”. No my good man, she made a deal with her supposed arch-enemy (Musharraf) to have all charges dismissed before she returned home, and the deal was that she would work with the dictator in some form of alliance that was lauded in Washington.

Please, Mr. Bisram, stop your personal attacks against another religion. Furthermore, Guyanese are aware of news from around the world, so you do not have to send letters to local newspapers with anti-Islamic news as you have regularly done.

Yours faithfully,

R. Khan