However, Bush had a super card to play and he pushed Bhutto into the forefront of an apparently lost battle in Pakistan. With the Taliban growing in maturity in guerilla warfare in AfghanistanPakistan’s own territory in the north, Bush wanted Musharaf to push further the crime against innocent Muslims as well as against Islamic militancy. The question is why did Musharaf stop half way in his blind following of Washington’s anti-Islamic fundamentalist war? The answer is ‘mutiny’ and this was not what Musharaf wanted on his hands after the Red Mosque massacre before the holy month of Ramadan. 

A military mutiny was a great possibility in Pakistan with the secret service collaborating with the Taliban on several issues – hence betraying Musharaf’s support for Bush. It is a fact that the country’s ISI spy agency has played a central political role since the country's creation. It was behind the Taliban from the beginning and has played a role in the recent revival of the Taliban against Nato troops in Afghanistan.

The Pakistani army too played a very significant role in determining the political future of the country. The decision by Musharaf to go slow in the slaughter of Muslims in North West Pakistan is largely due to this revival of the Taliban, which turned into a stronger and deadlier opponent in the field against both Nato/Afghan and Pakistani forces.

Musharaf smelled the rat in the hat with the constant failures of his army in North West Pakistan’s region known as Waziristan. Further incursions in the region would lead to the massacre of Pakistan’s troops by the Taliban and local fighters joined by foreign Muslim Mujahideen. The success of the Taliban coalition of Muslim fighters in Waziristan is undeniable and a massive defeat of the Pakistani army was imminent. It is still imminent with ongoing battles in the region but this is not reported fully by the International media.

Musharaf would have been toppled automatically in the event of a massive backlash in Waziristan. The army would have colluded with the ISI to arrange for the swift elimination – however deadly or brutal it would have been – and the recent attempts on the Pakistani President’s life tell the tale of such a collusion that failed to materialize. It was a warning sign given to the pro-U.S. president that if he did not change course in the war on terror, it would be his life that would be lost. This was the obvious message of the helicopter crash that almost gutted the entire entourage of the Pakistani president in October this year.

With Musharaf life chances narrowing, Washington was hard pressed to put its wild card into play and Bhutto was in need of such an offering due to the oblivion that surrounded her life in the U.K. The attempt on Benazir’s life, blamed on militant Muslims, is not what it looked like. If they Muslim militants from the Taliban wanted her dead, she would have been buried by now and would have become a thing of the past. What the bombing of the Benazir Bhutto cortege a day after her arrival in Pakistan tells us is the formal attempt by foreign intelligentsia – possibly in concoction with Pakistan’s very notorious and secretive secret service – in pushing the popularity of Benazir to untold heights.

Will Bhutto survive the onslaught of Islamic militancy in Pakistan or will she turn out to be the right card that the Bush administration is playing in this highly volatile Muslim country? The facts on the terrain in Pakistan is to be read with a very penetrating eye and with a deep understanding of the role that the Taliban is currently playing in this country.

Bhutto’s first declared enemy after the supposed failed attempt on her life – since it was surely not the Muslim militants work but that of shadowy hands – was the Taliban and Muslim Mujahideen whom she accused of sending her country into a new era of terror. She made it clear that her ‘government’ will be harder still in the fight against ‘Islamic’ terrorists, a principle to which she decided to subscribe in order to put Washington back on track in Islamabad.

Today, the targeted ‘enemy’ of Bhutto is Musharaf, the falling General who is now abandoned by Washington and is facing his own judgment day soon. Musharaf is now the man that Bhutto is asking to leave power after agreeing to join him in a shoddy arranged political marriage blessed by Washington. Bhutto was planned to be the prized political bride who would become Prime Minister while Musharaf is confirmed as the President for another term. This arranged political solution would have saved Pakistan from the Taliban and the ever increasing rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the country. Or so Washington made it clear to its supporters and allies when it was decided that Bhutto would be safely returned to Pakistan to support Musharaf in the war against Muslims (see terrorist).

With the sudden turn of events in Pakistan, the ‘democratic’ opposition of the country is now turning towards the ‘heroine’ Benazir and offering her alliances and even a stronger role as Prime Minister (even as President if necessary) in order to oust Musharaf and maintain the pro-U.S. status-quo in the Parliament and the Pakistani Cabinet.

This alliance of the opposition democrats will only encourage Washington in its endeavor to hold Pakistan within its grip and prevent it into falling into an Islamic revolution that could abruptly change the face of world.

Nevertheless, Bhutto remains the pawn in this deadly game that Washington is trying to maintain in Pakistan and as said earlier, unless stopped by the Taliban either through revolution or by the ballot boxes, Benazir is set to rule with as the puppet with strings pulled from the White House.