Posts Tagged ‘Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’

A thought provoking article on inculcating the principles of Bhuttoism in Pakistan as a part of school syllabus. (more...)

Sanam disputes Fatima’s views Friday, 30 Apr, 2010 AS the last surviving child of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, I feel a sense of obligation to respond to some of the allegations made by my niece Fatima Bhutto in her recently published book Songs of Blood and Sword. Specifically, I want to concur with the views expressed by my cousin, my [...]

Zulifqar Ali Bhutto was the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear programme when he was a federal minister for fuel, power and natural resources during Ayub Khan’s government. He continued the nuclear programme as President and then Prime Minister of Pakistan and signed an agreement with France in 1974 for its further processing. Benazir Bhutto [...]

Munno Bhai's article on this topic: ماں کے ہاتھ کی پکی روٹی اور اپنی پسند کی موت...گریبان…منوبھائی یہ تو معلوم نہیں کہ ”اقوال زریں“ کیسے وجود میں آتے ہیں مگر یہ عالمی سچائی ضرب المثل بن چکی ہے کہ ”تاریخ کا [...]

Source: DAWN By: Tariq Islam I refer to Fatima Bhuttos’s book Songs of Blood and Sword. I feel it is incumbent upon me to set the record straight on at least one story. Fatima tells us how Z.A. Bhutto wrote to his son Murtaza to go to Afghanistan to set up a militant base for waging a war on the military dictator, Zia. I [...]

Shahnawaz, Benazir, Murtaza, Sanam, Nusrat and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in northern Pakistan I Have A Rendezvous With Death -- by Alan Seeger I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air— I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days [...]

The historic passage of the 18th Amendment Bill in the current National Assembly is rightly being paired with the country’s first ‘Constitutional revolution’ i.e. the making and passage of the 1973 Constitution during the government of the country’s first elected Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The 1973 Constitution was an outcome [...]

ڈاکٹر شاہد مسعود کا ٹاک شو “ میرے مطابق “ مورخہ چار اپریل سننے کے بعد خاکسار نے اس پروگرام پر جو کمینٹس دئیے وہ ارسال خدمت ہیں =============== ڈاکٹر شاہد مسعود- تعصب میں اتنی دور تک نہ جائیں کہ غیر [...]

Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was among those leaders of the world who shape the destinies of their peoples. Bhutto asserted Pakistan’s national independence when the country was a member of Western military pacts. It is his initiative in the 1960s that paved the way for Kissinger’s secret diplomacy with China, something that brought the [...]

Former premier Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. — Photo by White Star Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto entered public life at the early age of 30, in 1958. In his book The Myth of Independence he writes about his views on foreign policy and the paramount objectives of Pakistan’s people. I was a student in those days and whenever I heard that he was to address [...]

Contrary to the right wing propaganda that the PPP is a party of Bhutto worshippers, the party and its workers have on several occasions proven that they do not blindly follow any specific clan. Instead, they value individual characteristics of courage, political leadership, commitment and loyalty to the people's cause. After the judicial [...]

Today is 27th March 2010 or it may by 28th of March when this article will be read by you. I see that some people are enjoying the spring season and its festivals. Some are planning their Summers and young people especially students are preparing for their examinations which will be held in April. Some are planning to celebrate the April [...]

PM Gilani honours PPP tormentor Dawn Reporter Saturday, 27 Mar, 2010 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani conferred the Nazria-i-Pakistan (posthumous) award on the late Lt-Gen Mujibur Rahman, one of Zia-era tormentors of the PPP. Gen Mujib was information secretary in the Zia regime and was accused of using his expertise in [...]

Nawaz Sharif is proving himself that he is not a democratic leader but he is a son of a military dictator who played a big role to ruin Pakistan’s sovereignty and its youth. General Zia-ul-Haq was the man behind Nawaz Sharif’s political career and yes of course Nawaz is paying regard in his honour by threating democracy and trying to [...]

Originally Published at THE NEWS The emergence of Pakistan as the homeland of South Asia’s Muslims, with their unique identity as a nation, was an unparalleled event in the twentieth century. The adoption of the Pakistan resolution at the All India Muslim League open session on 23rd March 1940 in Lahore gave our nation a clear direction. [...]

March is a landmark month for Pakistan. Notwithstanding the Shakespearean ides of March, it became a historical land mark for us as a nation when under the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Muslim representatives of from all over the sub-continent decided to seek, strive and achieve a separate homeland. On March 23, 1940 Pakistan [...]

Karbala is surely the hardest trial in human history. Seventy two noble souls refused to bow their heads before 1,20,000 beasts, and they kept humanity alive. SACRIFICE of the wealth, property, lives and homelands is the tradition of our forefathers. We have a vast background of sacrifices behind ourselves. Our history reminds us always the [...]

Mixing politics with judiciary is a murky but profitable business in Pakistan. In the name of rule of law and dispensation of justice, this business is flourishing by leaps and bounds. One important and advantageous aspect of this business is that parties could be changed according to wishes as Pakistan witnessed, on Nov, 28th, 1997. But, now, [...]

The risk of failure and backfiring are much higher in trying to install a friendly government in a foreign country than in attempts to develop friendly relations with an incumbent government. The failure of Pakistan’s Afghan policy is a glaring example in this regard Pakistan indeed needs to have a friendly Afghanistan, just as Afghanistan [...]

The words, quoted in my tears - the tears of a supporter of democracy…..these excruciating, but most retarding moments of my life compel me to realize that life is nothing, more than a game of whist - We have no time to sit or stand. Years ago, the founder of Pakistan Peoples Party Quaid-e-Awaam Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto spoke in the voice of [...]

Good news for Pakistan's undemocratic forces and bad news for Pakistan's Parliament and its supremacy: Government accepts judiciary’s recommendations. We are continuously moving towards judicial dictatorship. Pakistan army has always played an integral role in Pakistan government and politics since 1948. It has virtually remained as the most [...]

Today we live in an increasingly dangerous world, which is filled with people who have their ulterior motives and willingness to harm others to benefit themselves. Our world is filled with criminals, gangsters, murderers, and terrorists. The people who would go to all extremes to get their way being inconsiderate of the rights of other human [...]

 Saturday February 13 – The Chief Justice of Pakistan defied Presidential orders through a suo moto action against the Presidential notification for appointment of certain judges. Chief Justice, in a rare nightly emergency session, formed a three members bench that suspended two recommendations for judges’ appointment by the President. The [...]

Lucy Komisar writes: Twenty years ago, on a campaign trip in rural Pakistan in October 1987, Benazir Bhutto told me of her concern about the long-term effect of Afghan refugees who had set up safe houses, stored munitions and created networks in her country. Bhutto was attempting to follow the footsteps of her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar [...]

The PPP was launched at its founding convention held in Lahore on November  30 - December 01, 1967. At the same meeting, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was elected as its Chairman. Among the express goals for which the party was formed were the establishment of an "egalitarian democracy" and the "application of socialistic ideas to realize economic and [...]

In the words of Benazir Bhutto, democracy: "... is a birth right too often snatched at the point of the gun from the citizens by the very men who are to guard and defend us. This can stop to enable the people and the country to march with confidence and courage, with pride and dignity, with progress and prosperity into the twenty first [...]

The history of Pakistan Peoples Party is too long a saga of thrash about and forfeits. A time came, when the founder Chairman of our party Quaid e Awaam Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had to rest down his life…choose death to a life under the dictator rule and analogous was the case with our leader Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, who while [...]

The Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Memorial at the Rawalpindi Central Jail Gallows. The four pillars symbolyse the four Federating Units of Pakistan. Gallows of the old Rawalpindi Central Jail continue to haunt the Military Headquarters, where Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged in the early hours of April 4th 1979. After more than thirty years of Bhutto’s [...]

Roughly speaking, the political and social aspects of Islam in Pakistan can be seen as existing in and emerging from three distinct sets and clusters of thought. These clusters represent the three variations of political and social Islam that have evolved in (more...)

Here are two op-eds by late Khalid Hasan in the memory of Benazir Bhutto; the first one was written on BB's death in December 2007, the second piece was written on BB's death anniversary in December 2008. (more...)

VS   The Central Executive Committee of Pakistan People’s Party (CEC) and Sindh assembly have given their decision of full confidence and support for the President Asif Ali Zardari. Contrary to the wishes of some people (more...)

Nazir Leghari offers a perspective on Zulfiar Ali Bhutto's judicial murder, which was a handiwork of the Mullah-Military-Judiciary Alliance in Pakistan: (more...)

Zardari's tri-color coat and the nuclear button In the following op-ed, Abbas Ather explains that is is neither corruption (the NRO) nor Article 58-2(b), the most heinous crime of Asif Zardari is the fact that he heads Pakistan People's Party, the single largest popular party in Pakistan. This is the crime which the establishment and its agents [...]

Editorial: PPP: 42 and counting Pakistan People’s Party, the largest political party of the country with a sustained and significant support base in all parts of the country, has turned 42 and the journey continues. People’s Party is undeniably the most effective political outfit with a decidedly anti-establishment hue to emerge from the [...]

By: Humza IkramSUSPECT.................................................Fehmida MirzaALLEGATION. ...................................... First woman speaker of Asia and the Muslim world.CRIME ..................................................(i) Conducting in-camera briefings on national security, where top army and intelligence agencies brief [...]

By: Jarri MirzaMumtaz Bhutto on 17th October 2009 wrote an article with titled "Bahadur baap ki buzdil beti " on the eve of BB's homecoming . And now he is announcing to be a poplitical successor of BB and calling Asif Ali Zarari to be an opportunist . Let us examine (more...)

Goldmine on a million acres : Zardari for setting up ‘Zulfikarabad’ By Razzak Abro KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Sindh government to identify a million acres of land near the coast in Thatta district for the development of 'Zulfikarabad', in the memory of late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. State Minster for Information [...]

Secular blundersNadeem F. ParachaSunday, 05 Jul, 2009 | 01:44 AM PSTInstead of containing the Islamist parties, ZABs constitutional concessions only emboldened them. — File PhotoThe late President Anwar El-Sadat of Egypt was assassinated in 1981 by a faction of Egypt’s leading Islamist organisation, the Muslim Brotherhood. The irony is that [...]

Saturday, 04 Apr, 2009 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and his family pose for a photograph - AP/File photo. EXACTLY 30 years ago today, I was driving back with friends from a weeklong fishing trip in Azad Kashmir.We did not have much luck with the fish: locals told us army officers had decimated entire streams by using explosives to [...]

On this day: Bhutto Hanged Saturday, 04 Apr, 2009 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.-Whitestar   Ex-PM buried in family graveyard of Nau Dero Four others await [...]