Benazir Bhutto’s Death: Where Hope Lies

With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan has reportedly erupted into chaos. The chaos is also a struggle for each person to find their own unique voice. What Bhutto symbolized to her people, has now dispersed into everyone whom she represented. 

How often we forget that authentic leadership rises from the inside out. True leaders, like Bhutto - who was also the first woman prime minister in the Muslim world - become symbols and placeholders for the voice that has been silenced within our own selves. 

Whether silenced by fear or lack of courage, the death of a great symbolic figure forces us to take on that person’s cause, or turn away.  The chaos in Pakistan brings hope that the people will now find the strength to lead.

The cliché, “when the people lead, the leaders will follow” still rings true, in Pakistan and here in the U.S.