Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Recollections and Remembrances Foreword

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO: Recollections and Remembrances” has been the outcome of tireless efforts of the following friends and colleagues, without whose active participation and contribution at various stages of the book’s preparation, editing and printing would not have been possible. Mr. Wajid Shamsul Hasan and Mr. Taj Haider made the manuscript printable, after painstaking editing, especially those contributions which had been rendered in Urdu and have been converted in English. Mr. Waqar Abid Personal Secretary to Mohtrama Benazir Bhutto, Ms. Naheed Khan, Political Secretary to Co-Chairperson of the PPP, Dr. Safdar Abbasi, Political Secretary to Co-Chairperson. Mr. Yousaf Talpur, Incharge PPP Sindh Secretariat, Mr. Ejazul Hassan, Mr. Sadiq Jalari. Mr. John Nazareth, and Syed Muhammad Reza Kazmi helped in collecting the material persuading people to write, proof-editing etc. Many others --- a long list that is impossible to be mentioned individually, have also made immense contribution in the preparation of the book Bhutto Memorial Society is indebted to them for their invaluable assistance. Khurshed Junejo Compiler Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Recollections and Remembrances; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 9
HE WAS A LOVING HUSBAND Begum Nusrat Bhutto Q. What are your recollections of your child-hood and your family history? A. MY family comes from Iran. My great grand father had three sons. He sent one of his sons to China, to learn how to make silk, he became a businessman. He sent his second son to Najaf-e-Ashraf to become a religious man. He kept the third son with him at the lands to become an agriculturist. The one who went to Najaf-e-Ashraf was my grand father. His father built a mosque for him in Isfahan when he came back from Najaf after becoming an Ayatollah, but grandfather died before he could go back to preach in Isfahan and serve in this mosque. It is a very, beautiful mosque and is still there. My father Mirza Mohammed was born in Najaf. His mother was Syed and his father was non-Syed. His family name was Mirza Mohammed Abdul Latif Isfahani. He was a modern man and he did not want to become an Ayatollah. So he studied in Najaf. Once he and his friends went on a holiday to Bombay, India and when he returned he told his father and grandfather that he wanted to put up soap industry in India. So my parents shifted to India and established “Baghdad Soap Industries” in Bombay. There I was born. I was the third daughter and after me a son was born, so they said I was a good luck. They pampered me a lot. These were the final years of British Raj. My, father used to visit Karachi frequently, to buy raw material for his soap industry. I went to school in Bombay. When I did my senior Cambridge, my parents asked me to wear “Burka” (veil). They said now you are a grown-up and you cannot go around without hijab. My father was a very simple and softhearted person, he used to help poor relatives and neighbours. I refused to wear a “Burka” to go to college. A niece of mine would also go to college with me and she was very clever. She would leave her home wearing “Burka” but on tier way, she would take it off in the car, and then while coming back home, site would put it on again. Her father thought his daughter was very obedient. But I was the simpleton and I did not want to fool my parents. I did not know for many years about my niece, much later I came to know what she used to do. So I did not go to university and now I am sorry that I do not have a degree. So these were my olden days. I was treated fondly by everyone. My elder sisters were much older than me the first was 14 years and the second was 13 years elder to me. They had married very early and they had children of my age or a little younger than me. Fakhri is one of them. She is the daughter of my eldest sister. Safia Khanum. Fakhri and I grew up together. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Recollections and Remembrances; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 10
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Page 4 and 5: TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD .. .. ..
Page 6 and 7: DOORS ALWAYS OPEN Mr. Abdul Wahid S
Page 8 and 9: pertaining to the welfare of the po
Page 12 and 13: Q Coming from a conservative family
Page 14 and 15: go to his hostel in the night, and
Page 16 and 17: are a married man. You cheated me.
Page 18 and 19: Q. You say he was a very shy person
Page 20 and 21: myself” Q. What did he say in you
Page 22 and 23: they did not hang him. They murdere
Page 24 and 25: me before.” Q. Did Bhutto Saheb t
Page 26 and 27: Q. Didn’t you go to President’s
Page 28 and 29: are getting educated. Q. Didn’t y
Page 30 and 31: were buying the series of “Scarle
Page 32 and 33: environment. Father’s love of rea
Page 34 and 35: we always drove to Sihala to meet N
Page 36 and 37: After the death of our father, he g
Page 38 and 39: wished in our hearts that we were b
Page 40 and 41: AN IDEAL OF MILLIONS Tariq Islam Wh
Page 42 and 43: knowing full well he won’t refuse
Page 44 and 45: happening. This is a very good sign
Page 46 and 47: their thousands to catch a glimpse
Page 48 and 49: write poetry about me. They will si
Page 50 and 51: and in the streets in such compelli
Page 52 and 53: Smiling Irishman. The car, in the p
Page 54 and 55: AN UNCOMPROMISING LAWYER G. H. Abba
Page 56 and 57: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto saw me preparin
Page 58 and 59: needed. However, I will attempt to
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days. Bhutto Shaheed was very soft
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surrounded the entire village but b
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MERA SAHIB Abdul Qayum Khan My name
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two mile patch cannot be constructe
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THE MEMOIRS Mr. Dost Mohammad, In 1
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“It must be a book.” the Shahee
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people went out for a drive. We wen
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and said that it was his first meet
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It was the month of Ramzan, when th
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taken when I was in France” he sa
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silenced him and asked the wait “
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MY LEADER. Muhammad Hanif Khan It w
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mentor, architect and originator. T
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While taking leave at 2.00 A.M., fr
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with their mutual consensus was not
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MR BHUTTO AS PRIME MINISTER Major G
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Being an astute negotiator and poss
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KANUPP at Karachi, sponsored by Can
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All these events individually or co
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succeeding summer he took the Aga K
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BHUTTO AS A REFORMER SHEIKH MUHAMMA
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Vietnam, who had for more than two
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It was specified that “The genera
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was a great reformer. He wanted to
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enforcement of Land Reforms Regulat
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incorporated in the procedure for e
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irrigated land were to be exempted
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the commission and the decisions of
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year to year to buy wheat and other
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very first year of its implementati
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distributed at Rs.32 per maund to t
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Cotton 2,765 2,890 4.49% (Thousand
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MY FIRST MEETING WITH SHAHEED ZULFI
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A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN EVERY POOR HOME
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After narrating all this, the Shahe
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years. I know that my loyalists mid
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Waderas, capitalists were never wit
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I took Senior Superintendent of Pol
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The following day he went to Lahore
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IK NARA BANA HEY USKA LAHOO HABIB J
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problems of the masses. May God pro
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HISTORY LIVES IN HIM Mr. Mahmood Sh
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Gulf states and resultantly to impr
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WHEN HE “DID NOT” SPEAK ON POLI
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BHUTTO’S VICTORY WORDS IN 1970 EL
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organizations like Mohajir-Punjabi-
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standing in the queue to collect my
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Kapra aur Makan opening of medical
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I was discussing the statement with
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In 1977 the people’s government w
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BHUTTO SAHIB IN THE CAMERA’S EYE
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military Junta would eliminate him
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GOOD DEED PAYS Munshi Mohammed Hass
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DOORS ALWAYS OPEN Abdul Wahid Soomr
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PROMISE FULFILLED Mohammed Hassan S
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RESPECT FOR TEACHERS Nattik Garello
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