Adil Najam
Today, April 4, marks the death anniversary of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
There is probably no other political figure since Mohammad Ali Jinnah who has left as deep and lasting a shaddow on Pakistan politics as Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB). You can love him or hate him, but you cannot possibly ignore him.
Those who love him, love him with a passion that few – if any – other Pakistani leaders evoke. Those who hate him – and many seem to do – do so with equal ferocity. No one I know is indifferent to him.
I use the words “love” and “hate” because the intensity of people’s views on him cannot really be captured by dispassionate terms such as “like” and “dislike” alone. Whatever else we might think of him, no one can deny his intensity, or the intensity with which Pakistanis of all generations – including those who have never even seen him – talk about him.
So today, on his death anniversary, let me not talk about my views on him. Let him talk to us himself. In his own words and in his own unique and passionate style.
Those who opposed him are now competing with each other to declare him innocent.When mind gets blocked by narrow vision and hypocrisy Great people like Bhutto are eliminated.Bhuttos death by the hands of his chosen one will remove the word trust from dictionnary.To them who are still biased against him ,isnt it enough to see the poisonous fruits now erupting every were which were sown after him?which are engulfing you now.
Rahman,
This issue keeps coming up because Ahmadis are being murdered in Pakistan. I have yet to see the day when atleast one person is convicted for the crime of the murder of an Ahmadi.
Why does this Qadiani issue keep coming up again and again and again.
Dear GA,
I doubt if Bhutto forsaw the monster he had unleashed. He was in the position to take Pakistan into the first world. His actions pushed us back to the stone age.
The remaining portion of my post which was edited from the original due to message length..
On March 14th, a couple was brutally murdered in their home in Multan. http://thepersecution-org.blogspot.com/2009/03/bru tal-murder-of-two-ahmadi-doctors-in.html This was on the eve of the great celebration when Pakistanis got their justice system back. I searched for the news story on all the online papers and TV stations. I could not find it. Both victims were doctors and were receiving threats from unknown zealots. In September last year, two more prominent ahmadis were murdered after the broadcast of