Zulfiqar ali bhutto the darkest character in pakistan's political history

Every one of us must learn that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's political career got birth in General
Ayub Khan's military regime, which was the thing we traditionally call "Martial Law
Government". The-then Army Chief General Ayub Khan staged a successful military
coup in 1958 in order to become the center of executive power, entirely derailing
Pakistan's already struggling democratic setup. Mr. Z.A. Bhutto was soon afterwards
introduced in the sphere of politics under the Martial Law-umbrella and was appointed
Foreign Minister in 1963an illegitimate beginning of his career. Thus, he did not set out
as a public leader.
As the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, the first damage Mr. Bhutto did to the country
was surrendering unconditionally 750 square km territory of Pakistan to China in 1962.
Bhutto himself sealed off the deal.
Moreover, our history must be corrected about 1965 Indo-Pak War that it was Mr.
Bhutto, the Foreign Minister, who pushed the whole country into that war by designing
and supporting "Operation Gibraltar", which ended up in a sheer failure with 3000 Pak
Army commandos dead or missing in Kashmir Valley. In reaction to consecutive
operations code-named "Gibraltar" and "Grand Slam", Indians opened up three new
war-fronts to release Pak Armys pressure from Kashmir and thus the country went to war
exposing its numerous weaknesses. After the war had ended, this so-called leader proved
so shameless that he deceived, even seduced, his own master "Ayub Khan" atTashkent
while negotiating the pact with Indian Prime Minister Shastri. Despite being an
accomplice in that insulting pact, he started howling against his own master when once
having been thrown out of the cabinet in1966.
In 1970 Elections, Bhuttos Peoples Party did not even secure half strength of what
Sheikh Mujeebs Awami League had secured in the federal parliament. However, he
denied East Pakistans right of government and got on-guard to defend his illegal case
even at the cost of countrys integrity. Eventually, the ultimate came inDecember 1971
as envisaged by many statesmen, but Mr. Bhuttos stubbornness as well as selfishness
never came to an end.
After Ayub Regime, this same Bhutto made an illegitimate alliance with the next martial
law administratorGeneral Yahya Khan and brokered to break up Pakistan. He was the
one again to serve as Foreign Minister of Yahya's Martial Law Regime. He remained
unchallenged in his driving of Pakistan's foreign policy at the tide of his ambitions and
fantasies. It was Bhutto, who, out of sheer emotionalism or more probably out of design,
tethered into pieces at UN Security Council session thePolish Resolution of peaceful
surrender of Pak Army to UN Forcesin East Pakistan on 13 December 1971, the last
chance Pakistan could avail itself to save its national honor. However, Mr. Bhutto let it go
at will. What a great leader really Bhutto turned out to be.
Again it was Mr. Bhutto who went to Simla in 1972 to negotiate a post-war peace pact
with Indian Premier Indira Gandhi. There he shamelessly consented to acknowledge,
as Indians had always desired, the long-standing "Kashmir Dispute" as a bilateral,
regional dispute rather than a UN-arbitrated international problem. Probably it was the
worst kind of patriotism any leader in the world, other than Mr. Bhutto, could have ever
displayed. He also triggered military operation inBalochistan, cultivating the seeds of
secession that Pakistani nation is experiencing even to this day.
Later on, it was again his evil idiosyncratic character that embarked upon the project of
"nationalization", which proved the last nail into the war-torn economy of Pakistan. The
capitalism-based market of Pakistan never recovered from that setback, nor did investors
ever return to the market in complete trust. We must not forget that it was the time

when on the other end of the world, such as in USA and Europe, states were
denationalizing their major industries. How sick of him.
There was a state of self-actualization on the part of Bhutto, and that was his sole belief
in his person being an evil-genius. He had no compunctions on his conscience for what
wrongs he did to Pakistan, for he had his justifications to play the role of every kind
even of a chameleon. His rhetoric always demonized our Great Quaid and it is the illicit
legacy of the fraudulent character of Bhutto that we experience even today as Peoples
Party's agenda of "Divide and Rule".
Indeed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the darkest ever character of Pakistani politics. This is not
to say that there was no positive side in Bhutto; however, the negative side of his person
enormously eclipsed the positive side - continues to eclipse our political vision and
practice even in 21st century.