Re: Mistakes of Bhutto
The Hyderabad tribunal which also known as Hyderabad conspiracy case , was a judicial tribunal established to prosecute opposition politicians of the National Awami Party on the charges of treason.
The orders were made by ZAB to Set up the tribunal , where he also banned NAP on 10 February 1975. The Supreme Court of Pakistan was told that the party was working for an independent Pakhtunistan and greater Balochistan at the cost of Pakistan’s territorial integrity.
A total of 52 people were arrested. Those arrested from the National Awami Party leadership included Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Khan Amirzadah Khan, Syed Kaswar Gardezi, Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, Mir Gul Khan Nasir, Sardar Ataullah Mengal, Habib Jalib, Barrister Azizullah Shaikh, Aslam Baluch (Sheikh-Hussani), Aslam Kurd, Saleem Kurd, Sher Mohammad Marri (General Sherof), Najam Sethi and even prominent critics of Bhutto within his own Pakistan Peoples Party were also arrested. Reference Persistent Praetorianism: Pakistan’s Third Military Regime by William L. Richter ]
The 3rd amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan was passed to give wide legal scope to the state to define anti-state activities.
Nawab Akbar Bugti in 1973 claimed at a public meeting that Wali Khan and Ataullah Mengal shared with him the “Independent Balochistan Plan”, through which Balochistan could be placed “under the heel of one or more foreign power”.
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Isnt it Ironic that his grandsons are working for the same cause now **
The charges put by Government were so baseless that In response to one of the charges before the Hyderabad Tribunal, that wali khan been sent Rs 20 million by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi through a certain emissary, Wali Khan sarcastically filed a civil suit against the emissary for the recovery of the Rs 20 million.
The government used extensive means to validate the charges levelled against the NAP, while no proof was ever shown of the Party or its leaders role in the murder of Sherpao, a strong state run media smear campaign was launched which attributed any argument for the acquittal or release of the NAP leaders as anti-Pakistani.**
And if Wali khan was anti Pakistan - then why PPP of ZAB and Benzair Bhutto is in close bond with ANP ?**