Supporters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto pray at the site where she was killed to commemorate the first anniversary of her assassination in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Emilio Morenatti / APFrom Time Magazine:
Thousands of people were on the move in Pakistan this weekend, marching in two distinctly different directions, with two different yet intertwined agendas. One group carried large party flags and raised mournful slogans. These were the supporters of the late Benazir Bhutto, who converged on the former Prime Minister's grave in the southern province of Sindh to mark the first anniversary of her assassination on Saturday. The other large mass movement was composed of Pakistani troops fanning out along the border with India — many reportedly abandoning their positions near the Afghan border — as the drumbeat of potential war between the two nuclear-armed south Asian countries grew louder. And as soldiers and the political faithful took their positions, mourning, anxiety and a measure of defiance merged. For chaotic, crisis-wracked Pakistan, it was a time to mourn and, perhaps, almost a time to fight.
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