Pakistan honours Bhutto with coin, one year after death
by Baqar Iqbal Dec 19, 08, 05:21 PM
Pakistan will issue a new 10-rupee coin in honour of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto to coincide with the first anniversary of her death in a suicide attack, the central bank said Friday.
The State Bank of Pakistan will issue about 300,000 of the commemorative coins bearing Bhutto's portrait and inscribed with the phrase "Daughter of the East -- Honourable Benazir Bhutto" in Urdu, it said in a statement.
Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on December 27 after addressing an election rally, just two months after surviving a strike on her homecoming parade in Karachi.
The government has renamed Islamabad's international airport after the two-time former premier, as well as a main road and hospital in Rawalpindi.
Her husband Asif Ali Zardari took office as Pakistan's president in September, succeeding Pervez Musharraf, who stepped down after being threatened with impeachment by Pakistan's parliament for violating the constitution.
Zardari took over as co-chairman of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which swept the February general elections that had been postponed in the wake of her slaying.
Pakistan has asked the United Nations to set up an independent panel to probe her killing.
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Name: BaqarLocation: Lahore, Pakistan Since: July 2008 Posts: 6
Nawab Shah is the city where mohammad bin qasim fought with raja dahir, so this city and its name has some memories with it. nawab shah word is used in many literature but if we change its name this city might lose its identity and many history reader/writer might get confuse.
Women Center program was started by PPP in 1994. There are no funds mostly for things like health and education. The thing will we accept to decrease our defence budget and spend in health and education. There is no problem changing its name. I agree with Adil that better thing is to build a new hospital and change its name but again our governments made 5 years plan and with the way gov worked in Pak no hospital could be build in 5 years so for their prospective its a long shot
I read somewhere in newspaper that Women Center (created to help Women who need help) has been renamed as Benazir centre for Women . where as the fact remains that center is non-operational for sometime now and is still not operational because of lack of funding. PPP government just changed the name and left it like that :(
releasing stamps, coins and building memorials is a good thing. The country should cherish her heros and figures. But renaming the already established institutions to portray as a success is absolutely disgusting.
Build a new hospital and dedicate it to Bay Nazir, build a college and name it to Bay Nazir...but this is just cheap publicity stunt
but i think to issue coins is also a positive thing that usually countries issue coins or notes in memory of their leaders its still a great thing like even in USA they issue Kennedy Half Dollars or Roosevelt Half Dollars in memeory of their dead Presidents (although they died while in office)
Why not just rename Pakistan to "bay-nazir-s-taan". Thats all we can do, rename the things our elders built and be proud of it. I would have applauded them had they made a new airport and named it "Bay-nazir Airport"
Still this is acceptable to give a limited amount of coins in respect of honor but to change the name of an old monuments and cities it is more than enough.