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$11-Million Monument to Benazir Bhutto: APPROVED

Submitted by Tair-e-Lahoti on September 14, 2010 – 8:04 pm31 Comments

This week, as flood waters ravage Pakistan’s land and 20 million of its people, and after Pakistan’s own president, Asif Ali Zardari, managed to muster only $58,000 of his own vast wealth to the flood relief (a donation nearly doubled by Angelina Jolie), yet another devastating blow has hit Pakistan: news that the government has now approved an $11-million statue of the President’s assassinated wife, Benazir Bhutto.

And yes, this is Pakistani taxpayer money.

The statue itself will cost 4.7 million dollars, and it will be built on land that is worth another 5.9 million dollars. Apparently, Mr. Zardari, whose personal wealth is estimated to be more than 1 billion dollars, just couldn’t afford to donate the land or the statue in honor of the mother of his children.

His government decided the people of Pakistan could afford it, though. People who, according to the World Bank, have an average per capita income of $870 annually.

Admirably, the people of Pakistan have taken it upon themselves to try and stop this misguided use of funds in the midst of a national disaster. A legal action failed, but now a petition is available online.

Another day, another battle in the Pakistani people’s war for a representative government.

31 Comments »

  • Riz says:

    Where is the link for the petition. I want to sign it.

  • amir says:

    You PKKH idiots…..Go n check the accounts of Pak Army Generals in Swiss Banks….few politicians n most beurocrats n Army Generals ……N u dare not deny this cuz this is the fact

    You Morons have double standards….80% of the Budget of this poor country goes to Army …Would u plz tells us how much land , money is given to one Army General in Pakistan….N yea dats also the tax payer’s money…Brigadiers n the ranks above r the wealthiest bitches in Pakistan…No Army in the world can imagine such luxuries dat our Pak Army has….Luk @ the schools their childeren go to, Luk @ the vast acres of land dat is given to them,, they own major businesses , banks , Housing societies…..n u knuckle heads r expecting a Khalifa out of the Army Elite…impossible

    Hamare mulk ka haal dekho aur ek taraf Pak army ki luxuries dekho…You can point finger @ some politicians n their wealth..but Army ka to har General , millionare hota hai…..How much r they donating to flood victims?????????? ………..n by the way how on earth Army dares to take credit for flood relief these days …..U IDIOTS its their fukin job…it is their job description to hold things together in crisis ….They shud better do the relief work during the flood.

    • Pak_shaheen says:

      Actually its NOT the DUTY of the army to be doing as much as they have done. The government is suppose to have precautions in place for times like these which they obviously didn’t. ITS CALLED DISASTER RELIEF

      Now before you go out mouthing off the Pakistan Army maybe you should wake up and take a look at whats actually going on. Pakistan army is one of the few organisations who are actually getting anything done. As for generals getting paid and given all the “luxuries” well buddy wake up….any person in that position is due for that kind of pay back. What the army has done and is currently doing for this country is more than anyone else. These people should be praised for all that they’re doing…from protecting our borders to running the country because our civilian governments are not capable of doing so in a proper manner. From all that to come out and helping when natural disaster strikes.

      There is nothing wrong with paying those who deserve it. Getting to the rank of general takes a lot.

      But when our president is a convicted criminal and has the worth of $1bn. Which includes a fortress in France which Obama can not even afford and yet our people are still dying because of lack of food then you know there is something wrong.

      Don’t ever blame the army….they’re the ones who have brought this country back from crooks and criminals every time we’ve put them into power. And then because we never learn blame the army and bring back the criminals to run the country.

    • cheeta says:

      this guy amir is such a f*cking idiot.

      Dont you dare say rubbish like ” hey its their f*king job to hold thigns together”…….man what are you, a retard? Its the ELECTED GOVERNMENTS RESPONSIBILTY ….perhaps if you want to hold the Army responsible for the all the ills in this nation, then they should also have the full power by default, if the blame is always gonna come on them anyway………and i am pretty sure that if that happens then most if not all of this shit will be cleaned up and at least the nation will be saved from total and absolute shameless leadership…….if army is already doing everything like managing all the national institutions,even building roads, and not to mention fighting terrorists, the perhaps they should have the govt anyways….and btw, whatever work the army does for the nation, its not because some cocksucker like you says “they better do the relief work”. Its because they are the only institution with a sense of service for this country. It is only cuz of army that this country is still running, otherwise your fucking politicians have sucked it dry…..and as far as military budget is concerned, its not even close to 80%!???Where have you got this figure?????from Asma Jehangir???? for you guys sometimes it is 60%, then 70% and on some really bad days it is 80% hahahhahahaha…….. Get your bloody facts straight before you come here with your bullshit rant. Actually over 40% of your budget is going to debt relief, and thanks to these bastard PPP and PMLN, we are now stuck in a huge fucking IMF and World Bank Debt trap….and you are saying 80% goes to army…so please get your facts straight, its only 25% of your budget…..a paltry sum considering that this is the only institution whuich actually spends its budget without gobbling it up. And no i am not saying this from my self, if thats wat your thinking……over 40% of your national budget is being fucked up by debt relief….a far cry from the days of musharraf regime where military budget remained almost STATIC at RS 290 billion and there was no sign of IMF or world bank….all with over 6-7% growth….

      And which fuc*ing swiss bank accounts are you talking about????? the ones that all your daddy and uncle in PPP and PMLN have????? You talk of army generals like they get their rank by birth…..well i have some news for you, retard….all your f*cking politicians who are riding your ass now own most of the estate in this country through HEREDITARY means….and as far as the rewards that army gives to its employees….i have worked in many multinationals and have seen how they reward their top excutives for only paltry services, far beyond what any excutive of the armed forces gets unless he is of the top cream……so are the top army officers any less than these executvies???so what is your fucking problem if army, like any good organisation rewards its top exucitves for their services and performance after 30 years??????Its just that you are jealous that one insitution is working on well defined and proper lines, and instead of saying that other institutions should adopt the management models of the army, instead you are criticizing it for being ‘too good’ at what it does…..you have a totally RETARDED mind Mr. Amir and i hope you realize that….. and i know that the reason why you are so agitated is that deep down you know that all your politician friends of your dad are total shit and they cant even do a single thing without fuckin it up. Actually what has happend is that all of these bastards have been exposed before the nation once again…..so if that bothers you so much then all i can suggest is that you take this f*cking democracy up your fu*king ass because thats all you seem to be good at.

      • Salman says:

        This guy amir is just another chumcha of haramzada zardari. Have you seen those lucy dogs in village that someone takes pity and throw a bone at them once ina while, this guy amir sounds like those dog relying on loot donation from khinzir zardari.

    • Lord says:

      mostly agreed! I would like to add that these people have killed million of their own people and have let their criminal general to go out of Pakistan with all his billions, dollars and skulls of innocent civilians along. They never want to equate with civilians from whom they are born. They always like to teach lessons to journalists, police and ordinary civilians and whoever else, who by mistake thinks that they are also subject to the law of the land. This is just not an army that can represent a muslim country as they treat their own people with the mentality of their colonial masters watch dog mentality.

      Military is the biggest evil in this country who firstly wants to stick the ruling chair and would only allow, would back and manipulate into power, the weakest of character who by virtue of their criminal records are unable to deliver so that people confidence in themselves to self govern in totally shattered. I think educated Pakistani people should now start to think on the grounds of Erdogan to try to uproot the evil character in our military which though is the strongest or perhaps the only institution in the country but unfortunately in its present strength lays the weakness of the rest. It’s like a cancer!

  • ali caan says:

    And yet there are still people who think Zardari is good for the country,

  • khalid says:

    unfortunate, @ amir, man two wrongs dont make a right, ur statement justifies this monument construction as well. I am not saying that i disagree with u, but this blog is stating a corrupt task of present government which should be abolished.

    @kashmir infidata: we are sorry.. I wish some spiritual personal ruling us so that we could have stood up for you people. I pray that the time is near..

  • Iftikhar-ur-Rehman says:

    Building the monument worth $11 is a SHEER WASTAGE of cash now required for reconstruction of flood affected people of Pakistan.I sincerely hope better sense prevails and the Govt. decides to cancel this use the money for a better purpose.

  • SARMED says:

    Once again the …..boouths/statues parasti…… has began in Pakistan. Now ppp want us to worship bynazeer rundi and worship bhutto’s grave. did anyone of you saw their grave..mazars??????? man it is like some hindo temple, where ppl are comeing and sitting there all day and night praying to graves like kafirs.

    this gandu zardari kutta must be shoot down andn his harami son and doughters hanged for they lived on on our monies and yet we are either dieing in floods,no houses, no food, no clothes and we are so unlucky that our childern have been drawn in flood waters. nothing left just our haggered lives and bodies, yet these kafirs want to put boouths/statues on our lands so if we are saved from floods then we spend our lives worshiping these kafirs like kafir ppl.

    Nauzubilliah. plz help to stop this greart gunah, it is sin to have boouths/statues.

  • wakeup call says:

    Dear All Assalam-0-alaikum:-

    WakeUP My brother ans sister, be united as One Muslim Ummah, Follow the path of Prophet Mohammad(P,B.U.h) and Quran.
    Remember United We Stand

    At least we all Pakistani must know What our enemies (America,UK,Israel & India Government) are doing against us to kill & finish our civilization from world map.

    Pakistan Flood: HAARP Used in Pakistan by American Government & Flood Water release by Indian Dams? – Urgent

    High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)

    What is HARRP ???? How it can create Earth Quakes & Floods Check the below links
    ———————–http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6O3kJTqaI&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAxKOSw1r2w&feature=related

    http://khurramsnet.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/zaid-hamid-on-royal-news-turkash-video/

    they know they can’t win a war with Nuclear armed Pakistan so they used HAARP Waves.
    This is the same thing they did in Haiti first they Created a massive Earth Quake by using HARRP, kill millions of people for their Selfish Last and them they send their soldiers for the Welfare and Aid work in Haiti. American Government a Big cheater, they murdered pakistani by creating flood in pakistan Northern Area till Sindh. They are the American

    All started suddenly and thousands died, millions displaced, hundreds of villages vanished in the matter of just 4 days!!…strangely there were no weather warnings, no alarms.. these are the worst floods in the history of Pakistan BUT no one from Global MET offices could even trace what is going on in this region?

    The Sinister Plan is in final phase now.. Pakistani citizens simply have no idea that they are facing the worst ever crises in recent history. Floods will bring hyper-inflation, shortage of food, magnified power crises and collapse of entire political and economical system if this devastation continues. Now America-Israel-India-Nato will have the perfect excuse that Pakistan nuclear weapons could go in hands of Taliban or Al Qaeda in these chaotic times when Pakistani armed and security forces are fully occupied doing rescue, relief and rehabilitation work in hundreds of cities and villages while the economy is collapsing fast and extremists are on the loose!

    HAARP has recently been used in NW area of Pakistan .. the choice of starting point was perfect.. all the flood is going in downstream i.e. Khyber (Hills) to Karachi (Sea)… it is designed to submerge entire Pakistan and bring up the worst crises and chaos ever happened.. they know they cant win a war with Nuclear armed Pakistan – it would be a mutual destruction, so they have other ways to do it!.

    Check the link below:- check the link below:

    http://www.daily.pk/is-the-cia-playing-the-haarp-in-pakistan-19785/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailypk+(Pakistan+Daily)

    What is HARRP ???? How it can create Earth Quakes & Floods Check the below links
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6O3kJTqaI&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAxKOSw1r2w&feature=related

    http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/08/06/pakistan-flood-photos-haarp-fingerprints-found-allover/

    JESSE VENTURA – How HAARP Occurs Flood and Earth Quakes check below.

    2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZrrw4_NJVY&feature=related
    3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwgYkKudJA&feature=related
    4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAxKOSw1r2w&feature=related

    HAARP CBC Broadcast Weather control part 1

  • KAT says:

    This monumnet is very very essential for the democracy to sustain and for the peace of her soul. 11 million is small amount, we should spend more than this to build this, even 11 billion.

  • LIBRA says:

    Qayamat ki nishani hai, Zardari ki Hukamrani hai
    Qaum ko bari pareshani hai, Har taraf pani pani hai
    Quaid ke sipahi utho, Ab tumhari qurbaani ki bari hai
    Qaum ko lootne wale, teri maut bhi kabhi aani hai

  • Kashmir ki Awaz says:

    Guys she is in hell joined with Rajive Ghandi sipping alcahole on the rocks from her private bar area.

    SHAME; we were ruled by this dajjali crook and currupt zardari lover bynazer bhutto the rundi of Pakistan.

  • amir says:

    @ Khalid…I m not defending the construction of the monument….

    Yes politicians are corrupt bt Zaid Hamid n his PKKH followers think dat the Pak Army Elite are pure MOMINS n purified of sins…bt the fact of the matter is they are the most corrupt n wealthiest people around n american puppets (not all of them)…U visit any Cantt area n attend any of their functions…u will feel like u r somewhere in States. You will find golf courses ,tons of labour to serve Army officials….N from where they get the money to afford all this …poor’s taxes n the $ollars given by america…

    Army is the Sole authority in Pakistan..N these Core commanders n Army Generals r just power hungry who have nothing to do with betterment of poor in this country..They treat common people of Pakistan as slaves….N on the other hand enjoy all the luxuries of life with Pakistan tax payer’s money…NOW I WANA ASK SOME QUESTIONS TO PKKH WARRIORS..

    1-Who is stopping Pak Army to bring down Drones which every other day killing civilians n producing more suicide bombers.

    2- Who is stopping Pak Army to cut Nato supplies when we and our religion is humiliated by America n its allies..(Zaid Hamid talks oftenly abt this).

    3-Who handed over Dr.Aafia Siddiqui to US n who provided Air Bases to U.S?????n during recent strategic talks in U.S …Why didn’t Gen. Kiyani talked abt Aafia Siddiqui vid U.S counter parts..As America better knows who is the Authority in Pakistan..

    4- Why our Army spokesman like Zaid Hamid only talk abt the evil of U.S n Israel and when Enemies of Islam attacks Flotilla,make fun of Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W), burn Quran ………………………why dont we see a voice comin out of Army n some threatening to America..?????

    REVOLUTION is needed in Army Elite to save Pakistan…n they shud bring back money from swiss banks to help the poor, give poor just few square feet of land out of their 10s of Acres of land…

    N PLZ PAKISTAN ARMY …TUM LOGON KO 80% BUDGET DETE HAIN PAKISTAN KE GHAREEB LOG …KUCH TO APNI AYASHIAN KAM KARO AUR ISLAM AUR PAKISTAN KI KHIDMAT KARO

  • Alamgir says:

    Zardari should be exiled and his cronies too!

    The whole government needs to be overhauled. We have this shame to show the world.

    • Salman says:

      @ALamgir

      “Zardari should be exiled and his cronies too!”? are you insane? These thugs should be skinned on live television broadcast unless and until the return every single penny they stole from Paksitan. I would go even that far to have international bidding of their mothers and daughters to recover the loss. 20 million paksitanis are misreble today becaue of these thugs. If you send them in exile they will give speeches over the phone and there are still many retarded pakistanis to follow. And Mush is dying to come back to loot more and finish the job his american gods asked him to do. i.e. destroy pakistan

      Time to support people like AQ Khan and Imran Khan for leadership with a proven track record.

  • HMZ says:

    Spending of such enormous amount is not justified because it contradicts Objectives Resolution and Currently in vogue 1973 Constitution by following clauses:
    1. no activity contradictory to Quran and Sunnah will be allowed; making of Statue of any person is Haraam.
    2. A nation having so many poor people, can’t afford wastage of public money; wastage is also not allowed in our religion.

  • Noor Mahal says:

    @Kashmiri bhai.
    we are ashamed of our wrong doings; plz pray Allah give us ‘hidaya’.
    if we rise up to face the evil devils, only then other Muslim nations around the world will get confidence.
    infact, our women and media see indian and western media and dresses as ideals for themselves, no doubt they’re playing in the hands of devilish men, who are promoting there business by modelling women and greedy media.
    we are ashamed, may Allah guide us to work for His approval and happiness.

  • hadeen says:

    she was evil. coz she knew in times when there were suiside bombers were exploding everywhere and she was stoped by the gov at that time to not to form gatherings coz ppl can die in terrorist blasts. but she wanted to show off and she was the cause of many pakistanis death along with her own death. if anyone says she is shaheed i would slap that person with smile, coz she was killer, who killed many pakistanis.

    shame we cant get rid of harmi ppp gangsters from our pakistan. these ppp looters have destoryed pakistan and looted pakistan so much that there is nothing left. now these ppp gansgters are buying expansive properties abroad, while over 20 million pakistanis are out on the roads with nothing to their names.

    revolotion we need to hang all these harmzadays and hamrzadias of ppp, pmln, anp, mqm and the rest. all are looters and plunderes. allah give them saza for they are pakistan’s enemies. this ppp is indian gang, out to destory pakistan and its army.

    look at them, their fat shiny faces with new clothes and classy highst paid properties, we cant even dream of any what they have. look at their childern living abroad on our monies and we are living in exterm poverties, counting takas and rupias to buy 120. rupee one kg potatoes and we find it hard and difficult to buy. yet they have everything.

    pak army should ask uk, swiss, us and france to sell all propeerties that belong to these gangsters and give this money back to pakistan.

    we don’t want foregion leaders any more. we want true pakistanis to lead us.

    death to zardari and to his childern and to all from political parties death to them too.

  • Rana Imtiaz Ahmad Khan says:

    Shame on this incompetent government first of all it is PPPP’s government they have to arrest the plotters and executors of her murder, Mohtarma was a great leader I’m sorry to say it is her party’s government and her husband is president and most powerful person in Pakistan even then FIR of her murder case is no where registered even a constable is not suspended it is criminal negligence People of Pakistan can forget corruption cases but never forgive her murderers and who is providing protection to them it will not wash away the responsibility of the government regardless the value of monument This is rubbish argument that democracy is best revenge if so Mr.Zardari should forgive Rana Maqbool former IG police if he can forgive Mahatma’s Murderers Mohtarma was not only PPPP’s leader she was leader of 170 Millions people of this country it is duty of this government to bring the culprits to justice otherwise PPPP is dead forever.

    The first responsibility is to to arrest the culprits and bring them to justice if the government want to make monuments it should be made by personal wealth of Zardari or PPPP can pay it but dont use Taxpayers money.

  • KAT says:

    This monument should be built on every cost for Shaheed Muhtarma Benazir Bhutto. She was a true martyr and gave her life for the democracy and for the whole nation of Pakistan. SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO was a true leader.

  • Iftikhar-ur-Rehman says:

    Our govt. is bent upon wasting US$11million to build a building for the dead but is not willing to increase the budget for EDUCATION. Dead are more important than the educated masses.

  • It is better that the Pakistani nation is under attack from all sides at the moment… the floods, the infrastructure problems, the political instability, everything… in our history of sixty or so years we have been a dormant people… rulers have come and gone, plundered and ridiculed us.. what have we done… nothing… if this is what it takes to bring us to the brink of self-destruction, then so be it… Let us pray that we wake up before the we pass over the precipice of falling into oblivion after which we will be no better than the forgotten countries of Africa…

  • annonymous says:

    Benazir was an agent of USA who was eventually killed by USA but pakistan is still suffering because of the people like her who obey the dictats of USA,PPP must preferably step down which shall be a big favour to the whole islamic world who are also suffering because of their lenient policies .

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  • Hello says:

    Kashmiri bhai, aap intifada kartey raho
    Ek din zaroor kamyabi milegi…

  • roomi says:

    probebly these all comments are from some of the ex patrieat pakistani who just luckley escape from pakistan and never conterbute to do some thing for their nation they enjoys to criticise to their own nation bc they feel they are no more pakistani but in fect they are the same edit pakistani

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