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How had Yahya Bakhtiar’s position suddenly become “very weak”? Theexplanation is available from the same statement of the Commissioner of Quetta,for he goes on to state at page 362 “Meanwhile, the supporters of NAPPakhtoonkhwa had completely gheraoed’ the Pishin Rest House where I alongwith election staff was staying. The law enforcing agencies, including A.C.Pishin, were ineffective to remove Pakhtoonkhwa NAP”If the situation had turned against the candidate of the ruling party, asalleged by the Commissioner, it was due to the vandalism and pandemonium ofthe opposition. The telephone calls and instructions, if at all given, although I donot believe this to be true, were being given by the Attorney General to theCommissioner for the restoration of law and order and not for tampering withthe ballot boxes in the hands of the Pakhtoonkhwa. The fact that theadministration had been made ineffective, or had made itself ineffective, isadmitted by the Chief Secretary at page 364 of the White Paper:PPP leadership in the province, Yahya Bakhtiar and his agents werealready howling loudly that their polling agents were beaten up anddriven away by Pakhtoonkhwa workers in a number of polling stationsand the administration had done nothing to protect them. Mr. Raisani, theProvincial President of the PPP, when he met me in Pishin Rest House onthe 7 th afternoon, said ‘it seems as if it is Pakhtoonkhwa Government andnot a PPP Government after what I have seen of the administration Pishinnot even bothering to interfere when Pakhtoonkhwa workers wereforcibly taking over the polling station’. I told him that administration hadtried its best to maintain order and it had to be fair whether it is PPPGovernment or Pakhtoonkhwa Government.The Chief Secretary boldly told Mr. Raisani, the Senior Minister andformer Governor of Baluchistan, that the Administration had tried its best tomaintain order and it had to be fair. In a supplementary statement, the ChiefSecretary states at page 367:The only seat where rigging took place was Pishin and it took place asstated earlier in a big way. But even in this seat major rigging has takenplace after the election was over. Before that whatever had happenedshowed that the Administration had acted in many ways against theinterests of Yahya Bakhtiar. The take over of a number of polling stationsby people opposed to PPP candidate could not be forcible in all cases aswas given out. At a number of places probably the polling staff played thegame of Mr. Yahya Bakhtiar’s opponents. I came back after my visit toPishin on election day convinced a lot of what Yahya Bakhtiar had beensaying about Pakhtoonkhwa leanings of junior officers was not entirelybaseless.If I am Assassinated; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 117
Here we have the word of Chief Secretary on the support that Achakzairather than Bakhtiar received from the local administration. It must also be notedthat his admission has been made in a supplementary statement. There are manysupplementary statements of officials in the White Paper. Not being satisfiedwith the original statements taken under coercion, further coercion had to beapplied to get what have been euphemistically described as “supplementarystatements.” For this reason, most of the supplementary statements appear to bemore incriminating. In the statement under reference, the Chief Secretary hasbeen made to come out with more reference, the Chief Secretary has been madeto come to with more information, but being intelligent, he has tried to put adash of truth in it.Page 367 shows that the Commissioner of Quetta could not have hadmuch love for Pakistan People’s Party or its federal and provincial governments.The White Paper says that he had a clean record. He had this fine record:As D.C., D.I. Khan, he found himself on the wrong side of late Mr.Sherpao because he could not oblige local PPP workers and also becausehis real brother in Swabi, an ardent Jamat-e-Islami worker, was naturallyworking against PPP. The only ruling politician with whom he struck agood equation was the then Chief Minister of NWFP, Mufti Mahmood.This explains why this chapter is full of Islam Bahadur Khan. Naturally he wasas much against the PPP as the PPP workers were against his real brother inSwabi. The difference was that as Commissioner, Islam Bahadur Khan could doharm to PPP and its government whereas the PPP workers could do no harm tohis real brother. The fact that with this background available to me, I consentedto the posting of a man like Islam Bahadur as Commissioner, Quetta Division,shows my impartiality as an administrator. However, with all the lies anddistortions uttered by this man, he has also been compelled to state at page 373:From the above facts it is clear that all the candidates tried to intimidatethe voters as well as the public servants. The NAP Pakhtoonkhwa andother independent candidates rigged the election by use of brutal forcewhile Yahya Bakhtiar used his powerful and effective official position ashe happened to be a very strong Attorney-General of Pakistan.Funnily enough, the same methods have been used to prove rigging in theelection of Yahya Bakhtiar as were employed in the trial against me in the LahoreHigh Court. The prosecution witnesses and evidence common in both “cases”are:(i) Mr. Telephone(ii) Hearsay evidence, and,(iii) Bureaucrats.If I am Assassinated; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 118
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Table of ContentesPage NumberIn The
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Introduction“More than My Life Is
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turn to, if at all they wish to put
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The fifth and final omen is being e
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will continue to take its toll, and
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which made the explosion so devasta
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(though he hints at a Middle Easter
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safeguards on the plant. Within the
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have won the election. He also succ
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In looking forward to Bhutto’s co
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(i) The Pakistan army is largely a
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1. White Paper or White Lies?The Ju
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The timing is intriguing. I ask aga
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In view of what I have said above,
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2. MisrepresentationThe compilers o
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prejudice the mind of the reader ag
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Not one of those documents has been
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the eight week period fixed for ele
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officers is coming and blocking the
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army was thus once again called out
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Paper. This was my litmus test, the
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however, in no way indicates that m
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Disqualification TribunalsIn one of
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Convention Muslim League, he is kno
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perhaps provided in the White Paper
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4. The Election CommissionAn excess
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If the Chief Election Commissioner
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igging, was released. Although it r
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A White Paper on elections comes sq
Page 67 and 68: ‘The Prime Minister was pleased t
Page 69 and 70: Attorney General and Chairman of th
Page 71 and 72: It is the legitimate function of po
Page 73 and 74: How is the unnecessary complication
Page 75 and 76: not want to appear to favour any on
Page 77 and 78: 5. The Government MachineThe White
Page 79 and 80: servants to be unavailable and henc
Page 81 and 82: “The Intelligence Bureau was used
Page 83 and 84: murderer and a terrible person. In
Page 85 and 86: (e) There are four major power bloc
Page 87 and 88: Khan. He started to reflect. For a
Page 89 and 90: Rao Abdur Rashid was Inspector Gene
Page 91 and 92: neutrality. If it cannot take even
Page 93 and 94: proposals. If this so-called Model
Page 95 and 96: The regime has a soft spot for the
Page 97 and 98: the Punjab, the Secretary-General o
Page 99 and 100: For instance on page 77 it states:
Page 101 and 102: educing things to writing. Even a M
Page 103 and 104: along with detailed assessment repo
Page 105 and 106: (d) I wanted to give the history of
Page 107 and 108: He has waited all these months to f
Page 109 and 110: province of Sindh. Needless to say,
Page 111 and 112: and Gulam Hussain and others becaus
Page 113 and 114: Chief Secretary energetically denie
Page 115 and 116: Achakzai. It was pointless telling
Page 117: PakhtoonkhwaOn page 358 it is repor
Page 121 and 122: egard as their spiritual leader, an
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Page 125 and 126: informed me that during elections,
Page 127 and 128: March 1977.” It has clearly selec
Page 129 and 130: 8. The Inner CancerIn applying one
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Page 135 and 136: I am saying this in very simple and
Page 137 and 138: in Parliament and not by an individ
Page 139 and 140: the third against France in 1870-71
Page 141 and 142: illegal and unconstitutional action
Page 143 and 144: (a) Pakistan-Afghanistan relationsT
Page 145 and 146: valuable time of the conference as
Page 147 and 148: (i) Mr. Vajpai’s visit to Pakista
Page 149 and 150: inequality of status. Our two neigh
Page 151 and 152: who had earned the respect and conf
Page 153 and 154: The universal demand of the hour is
Page 155 and 156: The Chief Martial Law Administrator
Page 157 and 158: of Pakistan are bound to have their
Page 159 and 160: the emergence of these Brahmins.(g)
Page 161 and 162: army’s permanent role in the poli
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Page 165 and 166: outside world, amd in spite of the
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(e) It is generally known that Mr.
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Administrator stated at his press c
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11. Foreign HandProceeding on the p
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opposition in this regard; they see
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Tufail Mohammad, Amir of Jamaat-i-I
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evidence while he remained in power
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stage-managed in order to depict th
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I repeat, whatever is happening is
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said in reply. “I am all the more
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the former Chief Election Commissio
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“unacceptable” from Rafi Raza.
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in by Agha Hasan Abedi.” Only a p
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This subject is as sensitive and de
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(vi) This year, the innovation of t
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White Paper or any of its 342 annex
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engraved in deep thought. Suddenly,
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ingredient of justice. After a gall
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most powerful political party in th
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entanglement of Baluchistan. But
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Italy, another vital centre of civi
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Attaturk set up the one-party state
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optimism. He replied by saying that
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the information media by my governm
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etween the White Paper and the Spec
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In the context of the existing situ
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Masood Mahmood that the only task a
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(a) It would mean falling back on t
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She earnestly assured me that India
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is a spokesman for other powers. It
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typed to change my original notes.
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I helped the Haroons to save “Daw
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The White Paper further alleges tha
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of the political issues”. He repe
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