Posts Tagged ‘Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’

On the morning of April 4, 1979, the military dictatorship of General Ziaul Haq hanged to death Pakistan’s first popularly elected Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Today is the 33rd anniversary of what turned out to be perhaps one of the gravest judicial and dictatorial crimes in the history of the troubled nation of Pakistan. If you are [...]

شہید ذوالفقار علی بھٹو ایک زندہ تحریک قائد عوام شہید ذوالفقار علی بھٹو کی 33 ویں برسی آج دنیا بھر میں عقیدت و احترام کے ساتھ منائی جارہی ہےٴ مرکزی تقریب گڑھی خدا بخش میں منعقد ہوگی جس میں صدر [...]

Related post: Two important speeches on ZAB’s 33rd death anniversary We applaud PPP chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, on his bold speech on the 33rd Death Anniversary of Pakistan's first elected Prime Minister and PPP founder, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.  In a show of courage that was reminesent of his mother, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir [...]

Related post: We applaud Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s bold message to pro-rapist Islamofascist judiciary 4th April is a day when the PPP comes out as a victor against the forces that have tried their best to create hurdles in its way. Thousands of party workers, leaders and supporters reach Larkana every year to pay respects to Shaheed Zulfikar [...]

In the coming week, the nation will commemorate the thirty-third anniversary of the day on which Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s soul was forcibly separated from his body. For more than sixty percent of the population who came into this world after that April morning, Bhutto is a chapter — albeit a major one — in their Pakistan Studies textbooks. But [...]

Related post: Exaggerated and misunderstood: Z.A. Bhutto’s role in military operation in Balochistan Dear Baloch, As you aware that I was hanged by the Pakistan's Punjabi-Muhajir judiciary on instructions of an Arain General who I thought was loyal to Pakistan and promoted him to the rank of chief of army staff. I was trialed in [...]

Originally Posted at: The Friday Times Pashtuns are believed to be the largest segmentary lineage society in the world today. They have been living in their defined homeland areas since ages, in a social order loosely defined by the code of Pashtunwali. They believe in the myth that they are children of one common ancestor, Qaise, who [...]

It’s been a trend in Pakistani media to make headlines and breaking news on television that the Government is unstable and rumors of the imminent military coup are always floating around. The headlines and breaking news syndrome gained further hype when the opposition along with some other anti democratic entities were forced to acknowledge that [...]

This is no longer about the finer points of the law, if it ever was that. It has turned into a full-blown political tamasha (spectacle) but not quite in the way the doom brigade had imagined. The Zardari dispensation has not collapsed; the PPP has not grovelled, an apology of any sort the last thing on its mind; and the doom pundits, predicting [...]

دھائیوں کا نشانہ پانچ جولائی 1977، چھ اگست 1990، پانچ نومبر 1996 اور اب 2012 کی کوئی وارد کی ھوئی تاریخ کونسی ھوتی ھے اسکا انتظار کرنا پڑیگا یا پھر موجودہ گورنمنٹ کی دی ھوئی تاریخ کو معجزے سے کم نہیں [...]

Constitutional experts in Pakistan as well as internationally have termed the execution of Pakistan's first elected prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) illegal, a judicial murder which was clearly influenced by Pakistan army. On April 4, 1979, Bhutto was hanged after Punjabi judges of the Lahore High Court ordered his execution on charges [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan under his Lordship Mr Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, has taken upon itself the mantle of purging the country of all its ills and all its impurities. It has and rightly so, in a plethora of its judgments pledged to uphold the Constitution at all times to come. In one of its recent judgments, Supreme Court wrote: “Good or [...]

وہ تختہ دار پر پیدا ہوا تھا؟ اور 4 اپریل کی درمیانی شب دو بجے 3 ذوالفقار علی بھٹو تختہ دار پر پیدا ہوا تھا۔ اس کو ہمیشہ کی زندگی عطا کرنے کی آخری تیاریاں مکمل ہوچکی تھیں۔ عدالت اعظمیٰ کے عزت مآب [...]

اردو اور پنجابی کے معروف منفرد تیکھے لہجے اور بلند آہنگ شاعر اور ادیب نذیر قیصر روزنامہ مشرق کیلئے روزانہ قطعہ لِکھ رہے ہیں۔ ہم آج کا قطعہ قارئین کی خِدمت میں کراس پوسٹ کر رہے ہیں قافلہ رات [...]

Bhuttoism is an ideology, which surges like blood in our bodies. The slogans of “Jeay Bhutto” send frissons to the enemies of democracy. Nevertheless, when one unfastens the brutal myth of the far-fetched Bhutto heroism; one ends up kaput, with a derelict empathy. It gets implausible to count the tears, when one emerges to unwrap the very [...]

Front Line with Kamran Shahid - 27th December 2011 - Bhutto...Ashk Angez Dastaaan: We are pleased to cross post this excellent documentary "Benazir Bhutto- A Tale of Tears". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYy8rjdy3bc

نظم حسن مجتییٰ 'تم کتنے بھٹو مارو گے‘ جو قریہ قریہ ماتم ہے اور بستی بستی آنسو ہے صحرا صحرا آنکھیں ہیں اور مقتل مقتل نعرہ ہے سنگ ستاروں کے لیکر وہ چاند چمکتا نکلے گا ’تم کتنے بھٹو ماروگے ہر [...]

At daylight of December 27, 2007, I perceived the change in the shade of the blue - then; the world gave a vision of the mountains, stooping in veneration and in admiration of someone. Later, all the gesticulates of the oceans stood tranquil-The marvels were quite conspicuous, though, the day was to bring something too ruthless, yes, too hard to [...]

Have heard from ancestors that: once who bereaves, never comes back! But there are some meritorious people who pass away just in the eyes of world but leave behind a never-ending life – The martyr of democracy “Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto” is one of them. She’s the one greatly admired lady who had really made history by her innumerable [...]

The military eliminated all Bhuttos because Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Murtaza and Shah Nawaz Bhutto did not accept dictation but Asif Zardari, a non-Bhutto, is no different than Bhuttos and this is the reason of generals’ annoyance with Zardari. Generals are desperate to remove President Zardari through the Supreme Court as they [...]

You have ruled us enough You have ruined us enough You have raped our beloved country enough You have destroyed our future and shattered our dreams Enough is enough. Your concepts are weird, your plans are insane You are devious and deceitful You are cowards and timid You are cruel and ruthless You are cunning and conniving You are [...]

  FLASHBACK, Lahore, 1977: The early days of the 1977-88 martial law regime, as Pakistan’s first democratically elected prime minister and chairman of the Islamic Summit Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is in the dock on a “murder” charge as the (then) Chief Martial Law Administrator Gen Ziaul Haq goes about pronouncing ZAB guilty on the [...]

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is celebrating its 45th Foundation Day today. The President Asif Ali Zardari‚ and the Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani‚ in their separate messages on the occasion have urged the party workers to unite against forces working to destabilise the democratic system. In his message President Zardari said conspiracies [...]

Appeared in Pakistan Post, NewYork امر سندھوجامشورو نصرت ،ریاست ،جمہوریت اور قافلہ شہیدوں کا وہ مٹھی بھر خاک جسکا خمیر سرزمین اصفہاں نصف جہاں میں جڑا تھا، حبس و گھٹن کے اس صحرائی دیش میں باد نسیم بنکر چلی [...]

It’s not at all bad to dream – but yet, when one takes the lead to convert the nightmares into reality, without for even once feeling mercy over the circumstances of the deprived population, which has been facing the brutalities of the dictators ever since the underpinning of Pakistan; or at least bothering to deem that can we do further [...]

My attention to Murtaza Razvi's piece on Begum Nusrat Bhutto was drawn by a fellow Tweep (@Darveshh) who referred to the article (A remarkable life story) published in Indian Express with the following comment: "No, it's not Ansar Abbasi, it is Murtaza Razvi." I have read the said article twice and can confidently say it is replete of [...]

Editor's note: We are pleased to post four excellent articles about Begum Nusrat Bhutto, her relentless struggle against tyranny and oppression, and sacrifices for the cause of democracy in Pakistan. While Begum Bhutto was mentally and physically tortured by Pakistan's military establishment and its right wing (e.g., Mujibur Rehman Shami in 1977) [...]

Tribute to Begum Nusrat Bhutto (1929-2011) خاک اصفہان جب مل گئ مہر ا ن میں نصف جہا ں کی خو شبو پھیل گئ چا ر سو نشا ن ا متیا ز ہے ما د ر جمہو ر یت جس کے د م سے د و ڑ تا تھا شہید و ں کا لہو ذ و ا لفقار بے نظیر میر ا و [...]

Islamabad, Oct.24 (ANI): She had been ill since long. In fact after 1996, when her son was killed, none of us ever saw her or heard from her. Yet the news of Begum Nusrat Bhutto's passing away came as a devastating one. Begum Nusrat Bhutto, former first lady of Pakistan and former Chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party was wife and mother to two [...]

My Pakistani friends I write to you in hopes of shedding light on the need for more understanding between the US and Paksitan relations. Building bridges between the US and Pakistan would be hazardous work for civil engineers; imagine a fine art doctorate involved in such a verbal construction project (I have to admit I was apprised of the peril [...]

What is Federalism John Kincaid, Professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and director of the College's Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government gave a useful definition of federalism: Federalism is essentially a system of voluntary self-rule and shared rule. This is implied in the derivation of the word 'federal', [...]

There is every reason for over a million strong Pakistani Diaspora in UK and Pakistanis wherever to celebrate their country’s 64th Independence Day with great fervour and enthusiasm. It will be their fourth Independence Birth anniversary under a democratic dispensation achieved after too much of blood, toil, tears and untold human sacrifices. [...]

The 1973 Constitution given by Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was democratic, federal and parliamentary. It had a vision of Federalism in terms of fiscal devolution, ownership of resources, participation in policy formation and collective decision making. This was a fundamental change from earlier Constitutions. Unfortunately with deliberate [...]

Surrounded only by evil and deception, puny men with high sounding titles and ill begotten wealth, small and craven minds, devoid of class or culture like scum floating on a cess pool, I seem to have recoiled into an inner quiet where even when the mind wants to scream no sound comes out. I always believed in speaking out. I always believed that [...]

“Bhutto” is no longer the name of an individual or of a family, but it is the name of a birthright and is the crest of a crusade, which always elevated its influence against despotism and prejudice, against paucity and bigotry - and against disarray and restiveness. To this day, the BHUTTO has become the name of that family, which stood [...]

For the first time the only leader of subcontinent Muhammad Ali Jinnah took decision to make a independent homeland for Muslims of subcontinent and waged a battle for their rights, He faced taunts of "British agent" from forefathers of same school of thought of today's mullahs; those mullahs called him British agent and character assassination of [...]

Balochistan is the largest among Pakistan's four provinces, comprising 43 percent of land area of the country. Balochistan is fundamentally a clannish society possessing its own history, culture, behavior and norms. Balochistan became part of Pakistan as a consequence of agreements reached on 17th and 27th of March, 1948. In these accords, [...]

BENAZIR – I screech out to top of the volume, as much as my larynx could afford. Engraving the name “Benazir” – it fills my eyes with tears & breaks my heart into trillions. I ramble here and there, oblivious, hopeless and comatose in the boulevards packed with blood. Where is my Benazir?? I bellow, but there wasn’t anyone to [...]

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had enemies in the Pakistani military, Saudi Arabian ruling classes and the U.S government.  Benazir had equipped the Pakistani military with missile technology, which she had successfully obtained from North Korea, and supported the military in many other ways but despite her efforts she remained [...]

Related : Revisiting Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s trial – by Amna Paracha Amna Paracha was Begum Nusrat Bhutto’s political secretary through the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's trial. Her husband (late) Saleem Zulfiqar Khan was on the original defence bench. Mr Khan was a close confidant of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and worked closely with her for [...]