Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Recollections and remembrances

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MY FIRST MEETING WITH SHAHEED ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTOSheikh Rafiq AhmedIt was Faletti’s Hotel Lahore, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto a few days ago hadresigned from Ayub’s Cabinet, when we met. People’s Party had not been formed.Neither was the Shaheed being referred to with the popular title of “Fakhar-Asia”.“Quaid-e-Awam”, “The Leader of the Third World”, which the nation accordedto him later. It was, as matter of fact our second meeting I had met him verybriefly few years earlier. Shaheed then had just returned home after completinghis education and I had accompanied the late Mian Iftikhaniddin to his house inKarachi. But in our second meeting in Lahore, I was surprised to see that herecognized me as soon as I entered his hotel room. Later I experienced that it wasroutine for him to immediately recognize people he had met earlier, even if hehad met them only once and in crowds of lakhs and lakhs of people.I told him that I had always remained opposed to Ayub Khan and he had beenthe only Minister of the Ayub Cabinet for whom I and my friends had someregard. I told him that even as Ayub’s Minister he had remained popular amongthe youth, and had succeeded brilliantly in serving the country the Muslim Worldand the people in every ministerial department that he had served. “May be youare right”, he said.When I inquired about his reasons for parting ways with Ayub Khan, he replied.“The immediate reasons were the differences in Foreign Policy, which is nowknown to every one. However, from the day I became a Minister. I was consciousof the fact that I have not been able to serve the people the way I wanted to”. Hewas quiet for a few moments and then continued, “Ever since I was a child. I havebeen pained to see the problems and the frustrations of the ordinary people.When they made me a Minister, I thought that I may be able to resolve theseproblems to some extent. That however, could not be possible since at every levelauthority and power is concentrated in the hands of the very few”. The massesare helpless and subservient and then he recited the verse:I was astonished to hear an Urdu verse from him right in the middle of adiscussion in English. I had imagined him to be very distant from our tradition ofUrdu poetry, and completely immersed in the western traditions of art andliterature. I thought that his recitation of this verse which I vividly rememberZulfikar Ali Bhutto, Recollections and Remembrances; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 123
even after so many years was merely accidental. But more was in stock for me. Inhis last battle the Shaheed stood in the Supreme Court and with completecommand and confidence quoted Ghalib.“Shall we one day loose you in the Jungle likeBuddha seeking his Nirvana” I joked.The Shaheed was firm, loud and serious. He replied,“No, I shall risk my own life to see that every manwomen, the children, the youth, the elderly, shareequally with me this world of clouds and windsand colours”.How true did he prove himself.Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Recollections and Remembrances; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 124
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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
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“It must be a book.” the Shahee
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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
Page 102 and 103: Vietnam, who had for more than two
Page 104 and 105: It was specified that “The genera
Page 106 and 107: was a great reformer. He wanted to
Page 108 and 109: enforcement of Land Reforms Regulat
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 120 and 121: distributed at Rs.32 per maund to t
Page 122 and 123: Cotton 2,765 2,890 4.49%(Thousand b
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
Page 150 and 151: organizations like Mohajir-Punjabi-
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
Page 170: RESPECT FOR TEACHERSNattik GarelloW
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