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distributed at Rs.32 per maund to the consumers.As for prices of other smaller commodities like maize, onions and potatoes thesewere never fixed by the previous Governments. The Government had saved theproducers of these commodities from uncertainties of price fluctuation by fixingtheir prices also. With increase in production due to this incentive, it becamepossible to gradually lift the ban on export of some of these commodities afterensuring their availability to the consumers at home at reasonable rates.LIVE STOCK SECTOR:A brief mention of the position as regards live-stock will not be out of place here,This is yet another area which was the victim of neglect until the peoplesGovernment took power. Right up to 1960 the contribution of livestock to theGNP in agriculture was about 38 p.c. However, the livestock sector was starvedby shortsighted policies of the previous regimes so much so that instead of thenormal increase, the contribution to this important sector fell to 28 p.c. by 1972. Itwas therefore left to the People’s Government to restore livestock to its properplace. Several important measures were taken to achieve this and to ensure fullestpossible development.A number of projects were formulated with the co-operation of OPEC Countriesand IBRD. These were to be capital intensive projects which were at variousprocessing stages. Particularly noteworthy is the 20 million dollar lives stockproject set up near Sheikhupura. It was in the final stages of completion. Underthis project 50000 small and medium farmers producing milk and meal weregoing to be benefited. Seventy Thousand buffalos and Thirty Thousand cows ofindigenous breeds belonging to them were being improved. For this purpose65.000 dozes of frozen semen was imported to begin with. The project wasdesigned to produce annually 15.000 tons of milk and 5,500 tons of meat.The policy pursued by the Government ever since it came into power inDecember. 1971 brought the export level of livestock industry to Rs.35 crore in1975 (during the July-October period). A large further increase registered in thenext Year i.e. 1976, only the first four months of which had yielded exports oflivestock products worth Rs.57 crore. These include wool, leather, carpets andfish and form 27 p.c. of total agricultural exports of the country. The followingtable shown at a glance the large increase from 1972 to 1976 in livestockproduction in the country as a result of the progressive polices pursued:Species 1972 1976Buffaloes. 9.7 Million. 10.3 Million.Sheep. 12.8 Million. 16.2 Million.Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Recollections and Remembrances; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 119
Goats. 14.8 Million. 18.8 Million.Poultry. 23.0 Million. 30.0 Million.Only in draught cattle there was a decline from 14.4 million in 1972 to 13.7 millionin 1976. The evident of reason for the decrease was mechanization due to whichthe demand of cattle had gone down.A PECULIAR PROCESS:Agriculture production is a peculiar process it is so completely different fromindustrial production which can be multiplied and accelerated with human effortalmost “ad-infinitum”. On the other hand the processes of land and animalhusbandry are bound by immutable principles of nature. Whether it is crops oranimals there is a cycle of maturity fixed by nature which is virtuallyunchangeable. Both these fields are also subject to visitation by disease, pests andparasites to which the industrial process is not susceptible. Elemental forces ofnature, like weather, climate and natural resources, like land and water determinethe quantity and quality of agricultural production in a manner in whichindustrial production is not even touched. In Agriculture, the lee-way for man isnot unlimited and is in fact very limited. The effort for increase in the agriculturesector has therefore, to be truly great and hard as it has to rub shoulders withimmutable laws of God. All the same human ingenuity, if it is only out to the taskin right earnest, can work wonders. The various measures which the people’sGovernment had taken, some of which I have tried to delineate above, haveresulted in dividends which I describe below in the form of two resulted individends which I describe below in the form of two tables. Table No-I isintended to compare and contrast the output in five major agriculturalcommodities as reflected in the average production per annum of thequinquennium: l 1965-70 and the production after four years of the people’sGovernment in the year 1975-76.FIGURES SPEAKTABLE-I.Crop. Average Actual IncreaseProduction Production PercentageDuringOver1965-70 1975-76 1965-70In Thousand Tons)Wheat 5,626 8,500 51%Rice 1,695 2,578 51%Maize 632 790 25%Sugarcane 21,906 25,163 15%Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Recollections and Remembrances; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 120
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TABLE OF CONTENTSFOREWORD .. .. ..
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DOORS ALWAYS OPENMr. Abdul Wahid So
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pertaining to the welfare of the po
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT“ZULFIKAR ALI BHUT
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Q Coming from a conservative family
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go to his hostel in the night, and
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are a married man. You cheated me.
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Q. You say he was a very shy person
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myself”Q. What did he say in your
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they did not hang him. They murdere
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me before.”Q. Did Bhutto Saheb te
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Q. Didn’t you go to President’s
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are getting educated.Q. Didn’t yo
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were buying the series of “Scarle
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environment. Father’s love of rea
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we always drove to Sihala to meet N
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After the death of our father, he g
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wished in our hearts that we were b
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AN IDEAL OF MILLIONSTariq IslamWhen
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knowing full well he won’t refuse
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happening. This is a very good sign
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their thousands to catch a glimpse
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write poetry about me. They will si
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and in the streets in such compelli
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Smiling Irishman. The car, in the p
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AN UNCOMPROMISING LAWYERG. H. Abbas
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto saw me preparin
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needed. However, I will attempt to
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days.Bhutto Shaheed was very soft s
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surrounded the entire village but b
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MERA SAHIBAbdul Qayum KhanMy name i
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two mile patch cannot be constructe
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THE MEMOIRSMr. Dost Mohammad,In 196
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 KhanIt was
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 MINISTERMajor Ge
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
Page 100 and 101: BHUTTO AS A REFORMERSHEIKH MUHAMMAD
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Page 104 and 105: It was specified that “The genera
Page 106 and 107: was a great reformer. He wanted to
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Page 110 and 111: incorporated in the procedure for e
Page 112 and 113: irrigated land were to be exempted
Page 114 and 115: the commission and the decisions of
Page 116 and 117: year to year to buy wheat and other
Page 118 and 119: very first year of its implementati
Page 122 and 123: Cotton 2,765 2,890 4.49%(Thousand b
Page 124 and 125: MY FIRST MEETING WITH SHAHEED ZULFI
Page 126 and 127: A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN EVERY POOR HOME
Page 128 and 129: After narrating all this, the Shahe
Page 130 and 131: years. I know that my loyalists mid
Page 132 and 133: Waderas, capitalists were never wit
Page 134 and 135: I took Senior Superintendent of Pol
Page 136 and 137: The following day he went to Lahore
Page 138 and 139: IK NARA BANA HEY USKA LAHOOHABIB JA
Page 140 and 141: problems of the masses. May God pro
Page 142 and 143: HISTORY LIVES IN HIMMr. Mahmood Sha
Page 144 and 145: Gulf states and resultantly to impr
Page 146 and 147: WHEN HE “DID NOT” SPEAKON POLIT
Page 148 and 149: BHUTTO’S VICTORY WORDSIN 1970 ELE
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Page 152 and 153: standing in the queue to collect my
Page 154 and 155: Kapra aur Makan opening of medical
Page 156 and 157: I was discussing the statement with
Page 158 and 159: In 1977 the people’s government w
Page 160 and 161: BHUTTO SAHIB IN THE CAMERA’S EYEZ
Page 162 and 163: military Junta would eliminate him
Page 164 and 165: GOOD DEED PAYSMunshi Mohammed Hassa
Page 166 and 167: DOORS ALWAYS OPENAbdul Wahid Soomro
Page 168 and 169: PROMISE FULFILLEDMohammed Hassan So
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RESPECT FOR TEACHERSNattik GarelloW
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