Sherbaz Khan Mazari on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: " The Journey to Disillusionment" - PakAlumni Worldwide: The Global Social Network 2024-03-28T21:57:17Zhttp://www.pakalumni.com/forum/topics/sherbaz-khan-mazari-on?commentId=1119293%3AComment%3A77006&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe other Mrs. Bhutto
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<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa"><span class="_4yxo">The famous former PM of Pakistan, Z A. Bhutto, is largely known to have had married twice. Both of his wives are well-known: the quiet and obedient Shirin Amir Begum, and the glitzy Nusrat Bhutto who also became Pakistan’s first lady. But there was another. A third ‘hidden’ wife. ZAB never acknowledged her publically, but she became a powerful figure in his regime.</span></div>
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<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa"><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa">Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) was one of the most colourful politicians produced by Pakistan. Flamboyant, articulate, charming, highly educated, extremely intelligent and entirely unpredictable. My late father who was close to him, once described ZAB as ‘a disorientating combination of a sophisticated intellectual, a firebrand politician, an amoral pragmatist and an unabashed romantic.’ He said that ‘ZAB was a Marx, Stalin, de Gaulle and Don Juan all rolled into one …’ Born into an influential family of landowners in Larkana and to a father who was a member of Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML), Bhutto was married off to a cousin of his at a young age. But he hardly spent any time with his wife because he was soon off to the US and then the UK to bag degrees in political science and law. He briefly returned to Pakistan in 1950, and, according to an interview that his first wife, Shirin Amir Begum, gave to a ZAB-related website (Bhutto.org), ZAB politely told her that he planned to marry another woman. That other woman was the sophisticated Kurdish-Iranian lady, Nusrat Ispahani.</div>
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<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa">Nusrat’s family had moved to Karachi from Mumbai after the creation of Pakistan in 1947. ZAB and Nusrat tied the knot in 1951. The couple would go on to have four children, two boys and two girls. ZAB never divorced his first wife, though. She stayed in Larkana and was supported by ZAB’s family. In 1958, aged 32, ZAB became one of the youngest members of President Iskandar Mirza’s cabinet. He was retained as a minister after Mirza and military chief Ayub Khan imposed the country’s first martial law. ZAB’s youthful intelligence, charisma and work ethic impressed Ayub and he decided to keep ZAB in his cabinet after he (Ayub) ousted Mirza just 17 days after the military coup. Stanley Wolpert in his authoritative biography of ZAB wrote that Bhutto became ‘Ayub’s blue-eyed boy’. Ayub encouraged ZAB’s assertive style of politics. Wolpert wrote that Ayub often used ZAB to counter any pushback his policies received from the much older ministers in the cabinet. Wolpert also added that by 1961 Ayub had become much more than just a boss to Bhutto. He became a mentor and then a father figure. ZAB was often heard addressing Ayub endearingly as ‘daddy.’</div>
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<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa"><span>Almost everyone who came across ZAB and wrote about him has described him to be an admixture of an unabashed extrovert and an introvert. He was known for talking endlessly about everything under the sun – politics, history, cricket, music, poetry – and thriving in boisterous gatherings. Yet, even when he became President and then Prime Minister of Pakistan in the 1970s, he would regularly retreat alone into his personal library with his glass of whisky and his cigar and read there for hours, not meeting anyone. In 1961 the then 34-year-old young minister and Ayub’s ‘blue-eyed-boy’ bumped into a young woman at a party in Dhaka (in former East Pakistan). The woman’s name was Husna Sheikh. Husna at the time was in her late twenties and married to a successful Bengali lawyer, Abdul Ahad. The couple had two young daughters. Fluent in Urdu, English and Bengali, Husna had a mixed Bengali-Pashtun ancestry. ZAB was immediately smitten by Husna’s good looks, wit and sharp mind. The December 31, 1977 edition of</span> <span class="_4yxp">India Today</span> <span>(in a belated story on Husna’s relations with ZAB) reported that Husna was not getting along with her lawyer husband at the time. Even though ZAB pursued her with all his lady-killing charms, Husna remained out of his reach. This frustrated ZAB to no end, until in 1965, when she finally decided to leave her husband and move to Karachi with her two daughters. She lodged herself into an apartment at Karachi’s then very ‘posh’ locality, the Bath Island, which is just a 10-minute-drive from ZAB’s home in the city’s Clifton area (70 Clifton). Maliha Lone in her 2016 article on the affair wrote (in</span> <span class="_4yxp">The Friday Times</span><span>) that Mustafa Khar facilitated ZAB’s affair with Husna once she settled in Karachi. Only Khar, then a close confidant of ZAB’s, knew about the affair. He would quietly drive ZAB to Husna’s flat in Bath Island. However, the year the affair finally took off (in 1965) was also the year when ZAB eventually had a falling out with his mentor, Ayub. In 1966 he was quietly eased out by Ayub. In 1967 ZAB rebounded to form his own party, the populist and left-leaning, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). Husna was a confident, well-read and headstrong woman. Lone quotes Tehmina Durrani as writing (in her book</span> <span class="_4yxp">My Feudal Lord</span><span>) that by the late 1960s the affair had become highly charged and stormy and Husna would often slam the door on ZAB’s face! In 1967 Husna managed to win a lucrative contract to decorate the place of Sheikhia Fatima of Abu Dhabi and was able to buy two properties in Karachi. This was her way of asserting her independence. She also told ZAB that she would not meet him unless she married her.</span></div>
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<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa">In 1968 when ZAB and his PPP were at the forefront of a tumultuous student and labour movement against the Ayub regime, Husna managed to convince him to marry her. However, in 1969, just when ZAB had decided to tie the knot with Husna, he was arrested and thrown in jail for ‘instigating violence against the state.’ ZAB requested Husna to lay low, promising to marry her once Ayub was toppled. She obliged. Lone wrote that ZAB met Husna after Ayub resigned in March 1969. She told him, ‘how can you do this to me? You are my destiny.’ Lone adds that hearing this ZAB broke down and ‘cried like a child.’ Wolpert wrote that the year ZAB’s PPP won the most seats in the western wing of the country (during the 1970 election) he was once again being secretly driven by Khar to Husna’s Bath Island apartment. However, one day, ZAB and Husna had a huge fight (because he was again backtracking on her promise of marriage). In desperation, ZAB again promised to marry her and wrote his promise on the inside cover of a copy of the Quran. But, Wolpert writes, soon ZAB got cold feet and when Husna was elsewhere in the house, ZAB hid the copy of the holy book in his pocket and beat a hasty retreat. The problem was it wasn’t time for him to be picked up by Khar. So ZAB had to walk all the way back to his 70 Clifton home which is about a 30-minute-walk from Bath Island. Since by then he had become a well-known figure whose party had swept an election (In Punjab and Sindh) ZAB tried to take as many quiet streets and routes he could during his walk back. ZAB often gifted Husna various books on politics and history which she used to devour and then discuss with him during their clandestine ‘dates.’ One day in mid-1971 he gifted her a beautiful copy of the Quran (not the one he had earlier nicked). On the wrapping paper he wrote, ‘To my wife, Husna.’ Just days after he became president of Pakistan (20 December, 1971), he quietly married her. The <span class="_4yxp">nikkah</span> was performed by the progressive Islamic scholar and PPP member, Kausar Niazi, and witnessed by Mustafa Khar. Wolpert wrote that even though he remained married to Husna, he got the Quran removed from Husna’s home when he became prime minister in 1973. It was never found, not even by the police when – after ZAB was toppled in a reactionary military coup in 1977 – the cops were sent to raid Husna’s apartment.</div>
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<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa"><span>ZAB’s second wife, the elegant Nusrat, too was a headstrong woman. The mother of ZAB’s four children, someone told her about her husband’s secret marriage to Husna. No one really knows exactly how she came to know about it, but there is every likelihood that she was somewhat aware of her husband’s affair with an outspoken Bengali woman. Lone writes that Nusrat tried to end her own life by swallowing over a dozen sleeping pills. She survived and was shifted to a hospital in Rawalpindi. The distraught president begged her for forgiveness and told her that he could never abandon the mother of his children. Nusrat recovered and became the official first lady of Pakistan. Even though till Nusrat’s suicide attempt Husna had wanted ZAB to acknowledge their marriage publicly, she finally settled at being ZAB’s ‘hidden wife.’ But by all accounts she was a powerful influence. In 1990 she told the editor of</span> <span class="_4yxp">The Friday Times</span><span>, Jugnu Mohsin, that ZAB continued to visit her. Her home was continuously frequented by ministers and powerful men trying to get an audience with ZAB or wanting to get their message to the very busy prime minister. Mohsin wrote that she ran a ‘kitchen cabinet’ from her apartment, influencing many of the ZAB regime’s economic and social policies.</span></div>
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<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa"><span>She told Mohsin, one day when she asked ZAB why was he always in such a hurry, he told her that he knew ‘they’ would eventually kill him. She didn’t explain exactly who ‘they’ were. He might have been hinting at the military or the right-wing opposition groups who had grown stronger from the mid-1970s onward. Husna also told Mohsin that when the results of the 1977 election began to pour in and the PPP was enjoying landslide victories even in constituencies in which the party was not strong, ZAB complained, ‘will someone tell my CM’s not to ruin my 20 years of hard work!’ The opposition parties cried foul and began a violent protest movement which became the basis of the July 1977 martial law and subsequent fall of the ZAB regime. Observers have maintained that the PPP would have easily won another 5-year-term, but various senior PPP ministers indulged in unabashed rigging in some ‘sensitive constituencies’ in the Punjab. Husna was in London when ZAB’s government fell. She told Mohsin that ZAB’s eldest daughter (and future prime minister) Benazir ‘deeply resented her,’ but ZAB’s son, Murtaza, was kind to her and kept her informed about his father’s fate. When ZAB was being tried in a murder case in an entirely sham manner, Husna hired the services of a famous UK lawyer, John Mathews. But the Zia dictatorship refused to grant him permission to contest the case in a Pakistani court.</span></div>
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<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa">It was Murtaza who informed Husna (Sheikh) about ZAB’s execution in April 1979. Husna fell into depression and contemplated committing suicide. By then she had given birth to the only child ZAB and she had had (Shameem) so she had no choice but to pull herself out of her depression. She continued to live in London. ZAB was hanged in 1979. Shirin Amir Begun died in 2003. Nusrat passed away in 2011. Husna is still alive and in her eighties. She lives in London.</div>
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<p></p> Resignation of Ambassador Gen…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2017-04-06:1119293:Comment:1133902017-04-06T05:35:50.641ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Resignation of Ambassador General Gul Hasan sent to Premier Bhutto.</span><br></br><br></br><span>Telegram</span><br></br><span>Most Immediate</span><br></br><span>14 April 1977</span><br></br><span>Prime Minister House</span><br></br><span>Rawalpindi</span><br></br><br></br><span>From Ambassador for Prime Minister</span><br></br><br></br><span>The sooner you realise that you have miserably failed people of Pakistan the better. You have precipitated calamitous conditions in country resulting in wanton killings, destruction…</span></p>
<p><span>Resignation of Ambassador General Gul Hasan sent to Premier Bhutto.</span><br/><br/><span>Telegram</span><br/><span>Most Immediate</span><br/><span>14 April 1977</span><br/><span>Prime Minister House</span><br/><span>Rawalpindi</span><br/><br/><span>From Ambassador for Prime Minister</span><br/><br/><span>The sooner you realise that you have miserably failed people of Pakistan the better. You have precipitated calamitous conditions in country resulting in wanton killings, destruction of property and violation of human rights only to perpetuate yourself in office. Agitation against you is growing rather than subsiding as you had probably envisaged because of forces of terror you have let loose in country in which you allegedly claim to have ushered in democracy on assuming office on 20th December 71. Indeed you have exploited nation to build up your own image and for self-aggrandisement. Soon after assuming office in 71 it transpired that you were chief architect in dismemberment of country and I pray to God that your intentions which seem similar to those you harboured in 71 do not materialise as it would leave 70 million of our people with no homeland - which was achieved after endless sacrifices whilst you were still in Bombay still desperately trying to secure Indian citizenship.</span><br/><br/><span>Opposition leaders and people have demanded your resignation and holding of fresh elections under Army's supervision which is only way to rid country of the crisis for which you are solely responsible. Whereas you desire a dialogue with opposition leaders, let me tell you in no uncertain terms that fact is that you have no credibility left in what you say and do. So unless you meet the opposition demands loss of life and property will continue. You appear to be under erroneous impression that Army will come to your rescue. Recent events in country should convince you that our Armed Forces did not support the regimes of Ayub Khan and later Yahya Khan both of whom belonged to its ranks. As far as your relations with Army are concerned they are superficial because you have missed no opportunity to make every effort covert and overt to malign Army ever since you took reigns of power in December 71 and because of which I had to resign as Commander in Chief of Army. Armed Forces have always acted in best interests of country and not to prop up an unpopular and unwanted authoritarian dictator like of which has never been inflicted on our nation.</span><br/><br/><span>In view of this I find it incompatible with my conscience to serve a government headed by you any longer. Do not misread this as an opportunistic political venture on my part as I have only taken this step in hope that this gesture of mine will add some weight to those of millions of our nationals who have just about had enough of your government which can be rightly termed as of Bhutto, by Bhutto and for Bhutto and which in your terminology is "Democracy."</span><br/><br/><span>Gul Hassan </span></p> Perhaps, the most precise ass…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2017-04-05:1119293:Comment:1133862017-04-05T16:17:56.250ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Perhaps, the most precise assessment of ZAB has been summed up by Sir Morrice James, Britain’s High Commissioner in Islamabad during 1960’s, in his Pakistan Chronicle:</span><br></br><br></br><span>*“Bhutto certainly had the right qualities for reaching the heights – drive, charm, imagination, a quick and penetrating mind, zest for life, eloquence, energy, a strong constitution, a sense of humour and a thick skin.*</span><br></br><br></br><span>Such a blend is rare anywhere, and Bhutto deserved his…</span></p>
<p><span>Perhaps, the most precise assessment of ZAB has been summed up by Sir Morrice James, Britain’s High Commissioner in Islamabad during 1960’s, in his Pakistan Chronicle:</span><br/><br/><span>*“Bhutto certainly had the right qualities for reaching the heights – drive, charm, imagination, a quick and penetrating mind, zest for life, eloquence, energy, a strong constitution, a sense of humour and a thick skin.*</span><br/><br/><span>Such a blend is rare anywhere, and Bhutto deserved his swift rise to power. From the end of 1962 onwards, I worked closely with him and it was a pleasure to deal with someone so quick-witted and articulate. We got on remarkably well… *“But there was — how shall I put it? — the rank odour of hellfire about him. It was a case of corruptio optimi pessima. He was a Lucifer, a fallen angel. I believe that at heart he lacked a sense of the dignity and value of other people; his own self was what counted. I sensed in him a ruthlessness and a capacity for ill-doing which went far beyond what is natural. Except at university abroad, he was mostly surrounded by mediocrities, and all his life, for want of competition, his triumphs came to him too easily for his own good. Lacking humility, he thus came to believe himself infallible, even when yawning gaps in his own experience (e.g. of military matters) laid him — as over the 1965 war — wide open to disastrous error.*</span><br/><br/><span>“Despite his gifts, I judged that one day Bhutto would destroy himself — when and how I could not tell. In 1965, I so reported in one my last dispatches from Pakistan as British high commissioner. </span><br/><br/><span>*"I wrote by way of clinching that point that Bhutto was born to be hanged. I did not intend this comment as a precise prophecy of what was going to happen to him, but </span><span class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">14 years later</span></span><span> that was what it turned out to be.”*</span></p> I attended unveiling of a boo…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2014-05-18:1119293:Comment:970652014-05-18T17:02:23.897ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>I attended unveiling of a book titled "Bar e Shanasai" by Pakistan's retired career diplomat Karamaratullah Khan Ghori. Ali H Cemendtaur read some excerpts from the book at this event. In one such excepts, Ghori reports what he saw of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto when he was in office. Ghori recalls seeing a senior PPP member and a member of Pakistani parliament at the time rushing in to see Bhutto and sitting on the floor at his feet while the late PPP founder went about his business paying little…</p>
<p>I attended unveiling of a book titled "Bar e Shanasai" by Pakistan's retired career diplomat Karamaratullah Khan Ghori. Ali H Cemendtaur read some excerpts from the book at this event. In one such excepts, Ghori reports what he saw of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto when he was in office. Ghori recalls seeing a senior PPP member and a member of Pakistani parliament at the time rushing in to see Bhutto and sitting on the floor at his feet while the late PPP founder went about his business paying little attention to the man. Bhutto made no attempt to offer the man a chair and sit next to him with dignity as a human being.</p> Here's an interesting opinion…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2013-12-13:1119293:Comment:956432013-12-13T19:13:41.251ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Here's an interesting opinion of ZAB in <a href="http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/the-question-of-bigotry/">Friday Times</a>:</p>
<p><i>Bhutto apologists peddle every one of his striking list of hypocritical ‘follies’ as being the need of the hour; the only possible solution or the product of political ‘pressure’ that the man succumbed to with escalating frequency. This leeway is reserved for only two leaders in Pakistan’s history, Jinnah and Bhutto. Everyone else is answerable to our…</i></p>
<p>Here's an interesting opinion of ZAB in <a href="http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/the-question-of-bigotry/">Friday Times</a>:</p>
<p><i>Bhutto apologists peddle every one of his striking list of hypocritical ‘follies’ as being the need of the hour; the only possible solution or the product of political ‘pressure’ that the man succumbed to with escalating frequency. This leeway is reserved for only two leaders in Pakistan’s history, Jinnah and Bhutto. Everyone else is answerable to our liberals, sometimes simply owing to the fact that they propagated an ideology that our liberals do not conform to.</i></p>
<p><i>Just because Bhutto signed the declaration of Ahmadis as non-Muslims reluctantly it should not purge him from allegations of bigotry<br/> The Bhutto and Jinnah apologists are no different to the Taliban or Islamism apologists – they pick their favourite cherries. That Bhutto – or Jinnah – took leaves out of the aforementioned ideology to propagate themselves is paid no heed, since all one needs to do to become the proponent of secularism in Pakistan is not be a practicing Muslim, and everything else becomes justifiable thenceforth.</i></p>
<p><i>It was ‘secular’ Bhutto whose constitution made Pakistan an Islamic Republic – an A-grade oxymoron. It was ‘secular’ Bhutto who shut down bars and banned alcohol – which apparently is compatible with our liberals’ brand of Islam. It was ‘secular’ Bhutto who vied to personify Iqbal’s pan-Islamic ‘Mard-e-Momin’, by uniting the Islamic world and formulating the Islamic bomb to counter the threat of the imaginary Jewish, Christian and Hindu bombs. And of course it was ‘secular’ Bhutto under whose leadership Ahmadis were excommunicated in 1974, politicising the process of takfir and in turn creating a beast of bigotry that has its claws around the Shia community as things stand.</i></p>
<p><i>The justification provided for all of the above manifestations of ‘secularism’ is solely: reluctance. Just because Bhutto reluctantly signed the paper declaring Ahmadis to be non-Muslims it should suffice in purging the man from allegations of bigotry, but Zia’s Ordinance XX that debarred Ahmadis from using any Islamic titles is a brazen depiction of bigotry, since it was in synchrony with his own ideology.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/the-question-of-bigotry/" target="_blank">http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/the-question-of-bigotry/</a></p> I finally had a chance to see…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2011-04-26:1119293:Comment:770062011-04-26T05:32:50.891ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
I finally had a chance to see the documentary "Bhutto" by Jessica Hernandez and Johnny O'Hara last Thursday in Oakland, CA. The screening was sponsored by the PACC along with several other orgs.<br />
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It seems to me that the documentary is quintessentially a celebration of Benazir Bhutto and her mystique as the first female prime minister of an Islamic nation.<br />
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It advances a liberal western view of the Bhutto family through a narrative made up of sympathetic western and Pakistani commentators who…
I finally had a chance to see the documentary "Bhutto" by Jessica Hernandez and Johnny O'Hara last Thursday in Oakland, CA. The screening was sponsored by the PACC along with several other orgs.<br />
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It seems to me that the documentary is quintessentially a celebration of Benazir Bhutto and her mystique as the first female prime minister of an Islamic nation.<br />
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It advances a liberal western view of the Bhutto family through a narrative made up of sympathetic western and Pakistani commentators who see the Bhutto family as outsiders up against "the establishment"...a reference to Pakistani military and the ISI. It even lays the blame for Zardari's moniker as "Mr. Ten Percent" on ISI.<br />
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The movie does mention the 1977 poll rigging but it says it was done by "overzealous supporters" of the PPP, while conveniently ignoring the fact that the ISI political cell, created by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, actively rigged the vote on ZAB's behalf thus laying the foundation for as larger role for "the agencies" in Pakistan's political and electoral processes in 1970s, 80s, 90s, and the last decade.<br />
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Former President Musharraf made a reference to it in an interview in which he acknowledged that no new parties are created in Pakistan without "the agencies" influencing the process.<br />
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Here is an excerpt of a <a href="http://www.dawn.com/2011/04/17/musharraf-ready-to-mend-fences-with-nawaz.html">Dawn report</a> on the Musharraf interview:<br />
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"Pervez Musharraf said he had no regrets over the military coup of Oct 12, 1999, and the unconstitutional steps taken on Nov 3, 2007. “It was my good luck that the coup happened.”<br />
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When reminded that the Constitution had been abrogated on both occasions, he said the country was more important than the<br />
Constitution, which, according to him, was a piece of paper.<br />
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Pervez Musharraf said he had appointed Senator Mushahid Hussain as secretary general of the PML-Q after consulting Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain. He said the PML-Q had virtually fallen apart and most of its leaders would not contest the next<br />
elections from its platform. Many of them had contacted him and some were considering contesting elections as independent candidates, he said.<br />
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The former president admitted that setting up a new party without the help of government and intelligence agencies was a difficult job.<br />
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He said he had written letters to the former nazims of all districts, inviting them to join his party and had received a good response." A 1979 Time magazine report s…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2011-04-23:1119293:Comment:767992011-04-23T05:49:22.315ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
A 1979 <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912367,00.html">Time magazine</a> report said the following:<br />
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<i>A message by Bhutto, smuggled out of prison before the Supreme Court ruling, warned that "my sons will not be my sons if they do not drink the blood of those who shed my blood."</i><br />
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A 1979 <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912367,00.html">Time magazine</a> report said the following:<br />
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<i>A message by Bhutto, smuggled out of prison before the Supreme Court ruling, warned that "my sons will not be my sons if they do not drink the blood of those who shed my blood."</i><br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912367,00.html#ixzz1KJysTc7P" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912367,00.html#ixzz1KJysTc7P</a> Read more at
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<p>Read more at</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/08/ode-to-feudal-prince-of-pakistan.html" target="_blank">http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/08/ode-to-feudal-prince-of-pakistan.html</a><br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2010/01/bhutto-documentary-at-sundance-film.htm" target="_blank">http://www.riazhaq.com/2010/01/bhutto-documentary-at-sundance-film.htm</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/08/ode-to-feudal-prince-of-pakistan.html" target="_blank">http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/08/ode-to-feudal-prince-of-pakistan.html</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2010/01/bhutto-documentary-at-sundance-film.htm" target="_blank">http://www.riazhaq.com/2010/01/bhutto-documentary-at-sundance-film.htm</a></p>
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<a href="http://www.pakalumni.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1119293%3ABlogPost%3A51464" target="_blank">http://www.pakalumni.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1119293%3ABlogPost%3A51464</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2008/01/bilawal-bhuttos-extra-curricular.html" target="_blank">http://www.riazhaq.com/2008/01/bilawal-bhuttos-extra-curricular.html</a></p> Naseem,
I think Pakistanis ar…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2011-04-18:1119293:Comment:769042011-04-18T17:59:16.048ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Naseem,</p>
<p>I think Pakistanis are a very emotional people who have been swayed by sympathy for the Bhutto family for the hanging of ZAB by Zia, and BB's assassination.</p>
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<p>My own assessment is that the PPP would not have emerged as the single largest party in parliament had BB not been assassinated a few weeks prior to the last general elections.</p>
<p>Naseem,</p>
<p>I think Pakistanis are a very emotional people who have been swayed by sympathy for the Bhutto family for the hanging of ZAB by Zia, and BB's assassination.</p>
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<p>My own assessment is that the PPP would not have emerged as the single largest party in parliament had BB not been assassinated a few weeks prior to the last general elections.</p>
Mazari sahib has potrayed t…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2011-04-18:1119293:Comment:769022011-04-18T17:41:43.881ZNaseem Islamhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/NaseemIslam
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<p>Mazari sahib has potrayed the real Bhutto. I know all of the above to be true as my father was in NAP. The incredible thing is that a man who clearly had many murdered,tortured and humiliated, yet many admire him. What can you say of that nation that admires leaders with the above mentioned traits.</p>
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<p>Mazari sahib has potrayed the real Bhutto. I know all of the above to be true as my father was in NAP. The incredible thing is that a man who clearly had many murdered,tortured and humiliated, yet many admire him. What can you say of that nation that admires leaders with the above mentioned traits.</p>