Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Quotes
We are facing the worst crisis in our country's life, a deadly crisis. We have to pick up the pieces, very small pieces, but we will make a new Pakistan, a prosperous and progressive Pakistan.
East Pakistan—now Bengladesh—revolted and declared independence. The military cracked down committing atrocities against the rebels who asked India’s help. India intervened and Pakistan declared war on India and then suffered a humiliating defeat. Pakistan was isolated and distraught when Bhutto tried to rally the nation. What was fascinating, that there was very little damage to the non-military infrastructure of Pakistan. Their military bases and many of their major weapons systems and warplanes were destroyed, but in terms of the economy Pakistan was not in any crisis at all. However, Pakistan was and still is a militarily controlled nation where the president and prime minister, when civilians, have little significant power. The Pakistani people have been brainwashed by successive military leaders to believing that they were a superior military power and many of the religious leaders preached that their Islamic faith had to be protected from the Hindu Indians by strength of arms. The crisis was one of confidence and the only reason there was any economic consequence was that Pakistan would use immense sums of public revenue to not only rearm but also develop a nuclear capacity. This was the crisis—Pakistan would be poor for years because of military spending, See {623844} . The loss of East Pakistan (Bangladesh) actually made Pakistan much richer, The per capita earnings of East Pakistan was much lower, and East Pakistan was the most expensive part of the country to support (not counting military expenditures.) Ironically, with a military government paranoid about India with more control and more money, Muslims living in India had more freedom and were economically better off than the Muslims of Pakistan.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, 1928-1979, President & Prime Minister of Pakistan (PPP), Address to the nation, 1971
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Trump had so much success with the line"make our coutntry great again" that it was picked up by nationalist and fea mongering poilitics in other counties. See Quotation 644086.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat. This was the famous speech that started the peace process in motion.
He was referring to President Jefferson’s inclination to send the military against the Barbary Pirates. They had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. Note that Congress was not very well respected at that time which Jay and most leaders did not think was a good thing, much like in the 21st century.
The “adversary” was Pakistan, which was frequently sending military and terrorist attacks into Kashmire much if which has been disputed by Pakistan ever since the Partition of India in 1949. India had a very disciplined and well led military and like most sophisticated military powers did not immediately retaliate for military incursions despite the public pressure to do so. Instead they gave themselves time to plan and organize the logistics for a series of surgical strikes at the terrorist and/or military concentrations Pakistan had deployed close to the border which they launched several days later.
- Born: January 5, 1928
- Died: April 4, 1979
- Nationality: Pakistani
- Profession: Dewan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani barrister and politician who served as the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977, and prior to that as the fourth President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973. He was also the founder of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and served as its chairman until his execution in 1979.
