Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Recollections and remembrances

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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 neverforsake 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 KureshiI 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 afire-alarm. It was a friend who simply said: “Turn on the radio.” It was less of acommand and more a cry of anguish; such was the tremor in the voice. I presseda few knobs of the bedside radio and finally heard a newscaster announcing thatthe death sentence of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had been carried out. Disbelief turned torage and rage settled into grief. A close friend had died. He had been an electedPrime Minister (the first ever) of our country. It seemed to me to be an evilmoment and it was terrifying to consider the ramifications.I knew the phone would ring again and continue to ring and private grief wouldbe turned to public sorrow. My wife and I had planned to go to New Gardensand we did. April is the month when the seasons change shifts and flowers arebegotten and the leaves on the trees are a fresh green it provides a kind ofreassurance.Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and I went back many years. Had he lived our friendshipwould have been hearing the half century mark. We had been school-boystogether at The Cathedral School in Bombay. We had played cricket indeed thathad been the bond. We bunked classes to watch the Muslims play in ThePentagular, celebrated their triumphs and agonized over their defeats. I think ourforemost ambition then was to become first class cricketers. We swam and playedsquash at The Willingdom Club, went to the cinema he carrying a torch for AnnSheridan and I for Esther Williams but both Gary Cooper fans. Our families werefriends and there was much coming and going, they had a house on the sea-frontin Worli and we also on the sea front, in Shivaji Park. It was an unexceptionalboyhood happy, carefree and the only sorrow we knew was when it rained andthe cricket was washed out.When the time came to go abroad for studies, we both went to the University ofSouthern California and were roots-states at Mrs. Bess Jones Lodgings on SouthFlower 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 forcomplaint. 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 herabout exchange restrictions in our country and since she had no idea of what wewere talking about, she never threatened its with eviction. We bought a car jointlya Nash from a used-car lot of The Smiling Irishman. When it was asked aboutRichard Nixon: “Would you buy a used car from him?” I often thought of TheZulfikar Ali Bhutto, Recollections and Remembrances; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 50
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Page 4 and 5: TABLE OF CONTENTSFOREWORD .. .. ..
Page 6 and 7: DOORS ALWAYS OPENMr. Abdul Wahid So
Page 8 and 9: pertaining to the welfare of the po
Page 10 and 11: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT“ZULFIKAR ALI BHUT
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 your
Page 22 and 23: they did not hang him. They murdere
Page 24 and 25: me before.”Q. Did Bhutto Saheb te
Page 26 and 27: Q. Didn’t you go to President’s
Page 28 and 29: are getting educated.Q. Didn’t yo
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 MILLIONSTariq IslamWhen
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 LAWYERG. H. Abbas
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 s
Page 62 and 63: surrounded the entire village but b
Page 64 and 65: MERA SAHIBAbdul Qayum KhanMy name i
Page 66 and 67: two mile patch cannot be constructe
Page 68 and 69: 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
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BHUTTO AS A REFORMERSHEIKH MUHAMMAD
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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 b
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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 LAHOOHABIB JA
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problems of the masses. May God pro
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HISTORY LIVES IN HIMMr. Mahmood Sha
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Gulf states and resultantly to impr
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WHEN HE “DID NOT” SPEAKON POLIT
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BHUTTO’S VICTORY WORDSIN 1970 ELE
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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 EYEZ
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military Junta would eliminate him
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GOOD DEED PAYSMunshi Mohammed Hassa
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DOORS ALWAYS OPENAbdul Wahid Soomro
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PROMISE FULFILLEDMohammed Hassan So
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RESPECT FOR TEACHERSNattik GarelloW
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