Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Recollections and Remembrances Foreword

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and in the streets in such compelling chemistry, with such charge of electricity.... it was poetry in motion. He would never die for them and they would never forsake him. And I thank God for him and I thank God that the ideal of millions is my uncle. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Recollections and Remembrances; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 49
EARLY YEARS. Omar Kureshi I was in London on April 4th 1979. Very early in the morning the telephone rang. The ringing of a telephone bell at that early hour has the menacing urgency of a fire-alarm. It was a friend who simply said: “Turn on the radio.” It was less of a command and more a cry of anguish; such was the tremor in the voice. I pressed a few knobs of the bedside radio and finally heard a newscaster announcing that the death sentence of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had been carried out. Disbelief turned to rage and rage settled into grief. A close friend had died. He had been an elected Prime Minister (the first ever) of our country. It seemed to me to be an evil moment and it was terrifying to consider the ramifications. I knew the phone would ring again and continue to ring and private grief would be turned to public sorrow. My wife and I had planned to go to New Gardens and we did. April is the month when the seasons change shifts and flowers are begotten and the leaves on the trees are a fresh green it provides a kind of reassurance. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and I went back many years. Had he lived our friendship would have been hearing the half century mark. We had been school-boys together at The Cathedral School in Bombay. We had played cricket indeed that had been the bond. We bunked classes to watch the Muslims play in The Pentagular, celebrated their triumphs and agonized over their defeats. I think our foremost ambition then was to become first class cricketers. We swam and played squash at The Willingdom Club, went to the cinema he carrying a torch for Ann Sheridan and I for Esther Williams but both Gary Cooper fans. Our families were friends and there was much coming and going, they had a house on the sea-front in Worli and we also on the sea front, in Shivaji Park. It was an unexceptional boyhood happy, carefree and the only sorrow we knew was when it rained and the cricket was washed out. When the time came to go abroad for studies, we both went to the University of Southern California and were roots-states at Mrs. Bess Jones Lodgings on South Flower Street and Jefferson Boulevard. It was a typical student’s rooming house. Mrs. Jones was a patient landlady but we really never gave her any cause for complaint. We were not bell-raisers. Sometimes we would fall behind in our rent ($ 5 a week) and Mrs. Jones would slip a note under our door. We would tell her about exchange restrictions in our country and since she had no idea of what we were talking about, she never threatened its with eviction. We bought a car jointly a Nash from a used-car lot of The Smiling Irishman. When it was asked about Richard Nixon: “Would you buy a used car from him?” I often thought of The Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Recollections and Remembrances; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 50
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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 10 and 11: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “ZULFIKAR ALI BHU
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 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
Page 60 and 61: days. Bhutto Shaheed was very soft
Page 62 and 63: surrounded the entire village but b
Page 64 and 65: MERA SAHIB Abdul Qayum Khan My name
Page 66 and 67: two mile patch cannot be constructe
Page 68 and 69: THE MEMOIRS Mr. Dost Mohammad, In 1
Page 70 and 71: “It must be a book.” the Shahee
Page 72 and 73: people went out for a drive. We wen
Page 74 and 75: and said that it was his first meet
Page 76 and 77: It was the month of Ramzan, when th
Page 78 and 79: taken when I was in France” he sa
Page 80 and 81: silenced him and asked the wait “
Page 82 and 83: MY LEADER. Muhammad Hanif Khan It w
Page 84 and 85: mentor, architect and originator. T
Page 86 and 87: While taking leave at 2.00 A.M., fr
Page 88 and 89: with their mutual consensus was not
Page 90 and 91: MR BHUTTO AS PRIME MINISTER Major G
Page 92 and 93: Being an astute negotiator and poss
Page 94 and 95: KANUPP at Karachi, sponsored by Can
Page 96 and 97: All these events individually or co
Page 98 and 99: 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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