Re: Revisiting the historic day of July 5, 1977
It is known fact that there was rigging in 1977 elections.
Now, would bhutto have won w/o rigging and was he personally not involved in it?
That might be true but the jiyala culture that bhutto promoted had his party members acting more loyal than their king. Even a fervent supporter like Nadeem Paracha admits that there was urban dissatisfaction with Bhutto though he explained it all as an urban vs. rural divide. Socialism works for basic healthcare and providing utilities, education like in Cuba, but it doesn’t work as seen in Cuba or the Soviet Union (china learnt its lessons) to centrally plan everything. There is no incentive for progress and growth in a free job as the arabs are finding out now.