Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Recollections and Remembrances Foreword

environment. Father’s love of reading and wide travels made him much more
liberal than the other feudals nevertheless he was of the old school of thought.
Zulfi had socialist ideas. He believed in the power of the people. He envisaged a
future of social justice and equal opportunities. He put down his ideas in a
booklet which he had published. It is our misfortune that we do not have a copy
of that booklet.
When Zulfi was in his final years at Oxford he met Nusrat who had come to visit
me. He met her on several other occasions and they decided to marry. Father
wanted him to wait till be returned home for good but Zulfi and Nusral preferred
to marry which they did and both left for England.
When Zulfi was home for his holidays. I remember another incident. Qasim our
mali, was bitten by a snake. Mother asked me to phone Junagadh House for our
driver who lived in the quarters. Zulfi jumped out of bed rushed out and drove
Qasim to Jinnah Hospital. He realized it might be too late to wait for the driver.
He always looked after his dependents. Yar Mohammed the land manager had to
have a major operation. Yar Mohammed wanted only surgeon Amanullah to do it
and Dr. Amanullah operated on him. Babu our bearer had been with us since
Larkana days. My father got him married and sent his four sons to St. Anthony’s
School. After Father’s death Zulfi looked after their education and got all four
good jobs.
If my brother had another face I did not see it. I have only read about it by his
critics. Personally I was upset about his Baluchistan action. All my life I had
heard my father speak with respect for the Baluchees. Father had many friends
and contacts in Baluchistan which border Jacobabad in Sindh. Zulfi, however,
said at the Supreme Court hearing that he had long wanted to withdraw the
artily but met with stiff resistance from Gen. Zia.
When Zulfi returned to Karachi after completing his education, father arranged
for him to work with his friend Dingo Mal Ramchandani who had a law firm. He
also had to visit Larkana frequently to help father. He more or less took over the
management of the lands as father was not keeping good health. On one of these
visits he met Iskander Mirza at Uncle Ahmed Khan’s house in Naodero. Iskander
Mirza went several times to Naodero for partridge shooting. He knew my father
and was much impressed by Zulfi.
Zulfi was in Geneva for The Law of the Sea Conference when we lost father. He
returned immediately on receiving our telegram. He sobbed and was
inconsolable. Father and son were very close inspite of different thinking.
Zulfi came to know of his appointment in Iskander Mirza’s cabinet when he and
Nusrat were in Rex Cinema. On the screen they read that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s
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