Re: Death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
yeah but the type of strife we saw in zia's era was unprecedented. and it was his era when APMSO went from being a nuisance group like NSF to a had haraam militant group like jamiaat to brea all records of dada geeri.
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that was not because of PPP... it was because of G.M. Syed's Jiye Sindh party..
Oh same difference...all those sindhis voted for PPP and BB...
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1979: Deposed Pakistani PM is executed
khas kam jahan pak
that moron diveded pakistan into "have" and "have nots"
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I don't have the words to say how sad I feel abt this...Such a great statesman. In overall analysis of his rule, I will say that his foreign policy was excellent and in fact I was reading somewhere that we still follow some of the foreign policy principles set out by Bhutto. His internal policy left much to be desired but that he gave us a constitution and was intelligent enough to look ahead and start work on nuclear side also deserves applause. Overall...he didn't deserve the end he met. Not one bit. The only real politician we had after Jinnah. So sad. So sad.
agree 110%
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Whatever his misdeeds it was wrong to hang ZAB.
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Whatever his misdeeds it was wrong to hang ZAB.
so true
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One of the greatest statesman of asia - Pakistan is honored to have a politician of such a stature.. sadly, we wasted such a talent!
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I have two different perspectives to post here..one is an official PPP video on ZAB ..it’s got several speeches for those interested. The second is an old article by Ardeshir Cowasjee on what was done in ZAB’s name by his henchman, many of whom joined Zia later on.
[MEDIA]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4669980413488645928&hl=en[/MEDIA]
Ardeshir Cowasjee
HE lived by the sword, he died by the sword. He was never taught that “All
they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” There was no one
around to give him the old, old advice: “therefore all things whatsoever ye
would that man should do to you, do you even so to them.” His father never
told him, as the Earl of Chesterfield told his son so long ago, in October
1747: “Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of
pleasing.”
Born of Zulfikar and Nusrat Bhutto on September 18, 1954, he was brutally
murdered two days after his 42nd birthday by the men of his own sister’s
government, employed by her, at our expense, to enforce and maintain the
rule of law.
Murtaza grew up surrounded by sycophancy and arrogance, he watched his
father ridicule and insult his friends, he was a witness to the trials and
tribulations of his mother. By the time he was four years old, his mother,
using her Irani connections with Nahid Iskander Mirza, had seen his father
safely into the president’s cabinet. He then saw his father, on his own
merit, using his inimitable guile, make it with Ayub Khan as his minister,
and as his ‘fifth son.’ Then things turned sour, his father moved away, set
out on his own, and (so to speak) the child of the revolution ate up his
surrogate father.
By the time Murtaza was fifteen, his father was chairman of his own
political party. He watched the high jinks of the jiyalas, the joggling and
jostling for power by the budding politicos. He heard the shouts of
adulation from the crowds hailing their Quaid-i-Awam, wishing him eternal
life. His uncles were Mumtaz, Mubashir, Mustafa and Mustafa, Rafi and
Hafiz. By the time he was seventeen, half his country was deliberately lost
in order to enable his father, the first ever civilian chief martial law
administrator, to become president of what was left. In the years that
followed, he swiftly learnt all about betrayals and broken promises, how to
use violence, how to subdue, how to eliminate, how to torture, how to cling
to power. Sadist Masud Mahmood, chief of his father’s private army, the
FSF, was a familiar figure in his life, as was Saeed Ahmed, both of whom
were to turn and be the instruments of his father’s execution.
He was around when his father violated his own Constitution, when he then
arrested and imprisoned the Baloch chieftains, Sardars and Tumandars,
purely for political gain and self-perpetuation. He sat by while young
23-year-old Asad, son of Sardar Ataullah Mengal, was murdered in an
‘encounter’ outside the Karachi house of Tumandar Balakh Sher Mazari (his
body was never found), and while the toenails of young Asfandyar, son of
Wali Khan, were pulled out one by one (luckily Asfandyar survives to tell
the tale), and while Jam Sadiq Ali and Imdadullah Unar did away with
Khalifa Faqir Mohammed Amin and six Hurs, and while countless others were
murdered in acts of vengeance.
Murtaza knew all about how the keys of the prisons that held Sardars Mengal
and Marri, Bizenjo and Wali Khan were thrown away and lost until the cruel
military tyrant turfed out his father, opened the jail doors, arrested his
father, had him tried for his acts and omissions in the highest courts of
the land, hanged him in the dead of night, and buried him secretly in the
dawn’s sad light. By the age of 25, he had seen it all, he had exiled
himself from the land of his birth. Before he was 30, he was a declared
international terrorist, chief of his own terrorist organization. By the
time he was 31, he saw his younger brother die a mysterious unnatural
death, and soon thereafter his elder sister married a man for whom he had
the highest disregard.
Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid and his brother judges, Justice Amanullah Abbasi
and Justice Dr. Ghous Mohammed, must be complimented on the painstaking
efforts taken over a period of seven months, examining 129 witnesses, most
of whom were either apathetic, or economical with the truth, or both. Those
who witnessed the proceedings observed how, with great patience, questions
had to be framed and reframed to get somewhere close to the truth.
The fourteen line summation on page 177 of the report says far more than it
reads: “Our answer to Term of Reference (a) is, therefore, that a plan was
made to trap the colleagues of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and to kill his
bodyguards and other armed companions and show it as a genuine encounter
with Mir Murtaza Bhutto’s party being the aggressor and the police firing
in self-defense. Apparently, there was no plan to kill Mir Murtaza in view
of the clear directions of the then Prime Minister not to touch him, but
the concerned planners must have known the risk of Mir Murtaza becoming a
victim and, therefore, the plan must have been cleared by a much higher
authority than Durrani or Suddle.” The word “much” is highly significant.
The “much higher authority” must include, but is not limited to, provincial
chief minister, federal home minister, prime minister, which would be the
correct official chain of command. But, in our case, a “much higher
authority” is not necessarily a strictly legal and official authority;
included may be those who exercise authority illegally and unofficially, of
which we have no dearth.
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After death of Murtaza, it was widely beleived that Zardari was behind the murder. It was said that Murtaza had the put the photo of Zardari in his toilet bowl and had cut one side of his moustaches.
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^ they had a very bad relationship but I doubt that theory. Murtaza had stepped on a lot of shoes in karachi and if i recall right a few days before his death : he actually freed some of his supporters from a police station ..and dared the police/ paramilitary to arrest him. Whats more likely is someone in the police or paramilitary wanted to teach him a lesson and had the tacit backing of people in the Sindh government and probably in Islamabad.
Read The terrorist prince. Life and death of Murtaza Bhutto for more about him
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DOWN WITH BHUTTO