Her assassination has dealt these aspirations a severe blow. But as her son Bilawal bravely said in his press conference in London on January 9, “Pakistan has lost its best hope for democracy, but not its only hope.” If her assassination does finally draw attention to the dangers posed by a “state within the state” that she herself had drawn attention to, we can still hope for a better future.
The writer is a journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Karachi
beena.sarwar@gmail.com