Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: Difference between revisions

'''[[w:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto|Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]''' ([[5 January]] [[1928]] – [[4 April]] [[1979]]) served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977. Bhutto was made leader of Pakistan hastily shortly after Pakistan's bitter defeat in the [[w:Indo-PakistaniBangladesh Liberation War of 1971|Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]. He was the founder of the [[w:Pakistan Peoples Party|Pakistan People's Party]] (PPP), largest and most influential [[Political parties|political party]] of Pakistan. Bhutto was executed in 1979 following a controversial trial in which he was convicted of authorizing the murder of a political opponent. His son, [[w:Murtaza Bhutto|Murtaza Bhutto]] was a Member of Parliament of Pakistan and was assassinated in a 1996 encounter with police. His daughter [[Benazir Bhutto]] afterwards became leader of the PPP, serving twice as Prime Minister of Pakistan before her assassination on 27 December 2007.

* So I must proceed with patience, by reforms, measures that will gradually lead to socialism—[[socialism]]—[[Nationalization|nationalizing]] when possible, refraining from it when necessary, respecting the foreign capital of which we have need. I must take my time, be a surgeon who doesn’t plunge his knife too deeply into the fabric of society. This is a very sick society, and if it’s not to die under the knife, you have to oper­ate with caution, waiting slowly for a wound to heal, for a reform to be consolidated. We’ve been asleep for so many centuries, we can’t violently wake ourselves up with an earthquake. Besides, even [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], in the beginning, stooped to compromises.

* '''We badly need to gather our thoughts and clear our minds. We need a political ceasefire without conceding ideological territory.''' We need a ceasefire to bury dead thoughts and to overcome fatigue. The modus vivendi has to be honourable and above board. Both sides have lost or, should I say, neither side can win. During the ceasefire a combination of existing forces might create a new order or a new equation between existing forces. Whatever the formula, it cannot be evolved on the battlefield of the old or new cold wars. The new international order has to emerge through the demands of a Third World summit conference. The answer to the North-South conflict, which is more serious than the East-West conflict, has to be found honestly and with unimpeachable integrity. Genuine [[disarmament]] will not come on its own or by platitudes at special sessions of the [[United Nations]] on disarmament, although, I was among the first to propose such a conference eighteen years ago.

* '''Earlier, I have cautioned you against an outright pragmatist approach. Now I am cautioning you against an outright [[Populism|populist]] approach.''' Sometimes a populist decision is, in the long run, not beneficial to the masses. Neither pragmatism nor populism are fundamental political and socio-economic doctrines. Nor do I say that you should play it by ear. I have made this melancholy analysis in anguish. My jail surroundings have not influenced my objectivity. I do not want to see the whole world in a death-cell merely because I am in a death cell. I do not say that the High Court has pronounced a death sentence on the world because a law court has pronounced a perverse death sentence on me. '''I would be the happiest man if the gloomy winter of mankind were to give way to a shaft of sunlight and to coloured flowers. The world is very beautiful.''' "A thing of beauty is a joy forever". There is the beauty of the landscape, of the tall mountain, the green plains, the humped deserts. '''There is the beauty of the flowers and the forests, of the azure oceans and the meandering rivers. There is the splendour of architecture, the magnificence of music, and the sparkle of the dance. Above all, there is the beauty of man and woman, the most perfect creations of God.'''

* '''[[Africa]] will rid herself of the maniacs.''' Africa will live to show that "Black is beautiful". Africa is ancient but [[Asia]] is ageless. Her nimble and graceful beauty has adorned civilization from the birth of mankind. [[Latin America]] has become the castanet of an international culture that links [[w:Andalusia|Andalusia]] to [[Arabia]] and the [[Caribbean]]. What beauty there is in the tap of her flamenco! Europe is glamorous and adorable, so seductive that she is still beautiful after a number of face lifts. [[United States|America]] has been watergated. In that flow of stagnant waters you can behold beauty in its reflection. '''In etherial terms the whole world is beautiful. In physical terms I have rarely seen more scenic beauty than in [[California]] or in [[Texas]]. What pains me is to see how the blind power of that most powerful society is turning that beauty into something as sinister as the portrait of [[w:The Picture of Dorian Gray|Dorian Grey]].'''