I guess the hand-wringing is for the more grandstanding arenas, but I have to say Benazir was one of the very few prominent politicians who seemed to qualify as a human being , and this ultimately appears to have been her crime, along of course with the unsuitability of her presence to the usual suspects. I caught the news of the assasination on the R4 midnight bulettin, by which time the announcer would have read her bit several times, but notwithstanding that,as with Di's passing, there was a sense of homely inevitability about the tone of the reporting, as if a child had fallen off their bike. This is the sort of occasion where you need a bit of the implacable stentorian of old.