Word: bhutto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scope of Ayub's concession delighted some of the opposition leaders, but it did not please the President's principal critic, ex-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He called for Ayub to resign in favor of a caretaker government, presumably to be headed by himself. Nor did Ayub's plan mollify two leading East Pakistan politicians, Sheik Mujibur Rahman and Maulana Abdul Hamid Bhashani, the 83-year-old leader of the pro-China faction of the National Awami Party...
...When Bhutto condemned the Soviet-sponsored Tashkent Agreement, which restored the old Indo-Pakistan borders, Ayub fired his Foreign Minister-although offering him an ambassadorship as a sop. Bhutto elected to stay at home and became increasingly critical of the President, a stand that gained him wide support among students and intellectuals. Last November, Ayub finally jailed him on charges of inciting to riot and endangering the national security-clearly an attempt to head the former Foreign Minister away from a presidential challenge later this year. By that time the opposition had hardened about demands for abandoning the "basic democrat...
Potent Foe. The first sign that Ayub had called a retreat came with the release of hundreds of political detainees, including former Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto, now one of his most implacable and potent foes. Under the so-called Defense of Pakistan Rules, emergency laws that Ayub has kept in effect since the Indo-Pakistan war more than three years ago, Bhutto was arrested in mid-November on charges of inciting to riot and endangering the national security. The President's second step was his promise that the emergency regulations would be canceled this week. Despite the fact...
...police were generally restrained, but occasionally used tear gas and let fly with their lathis, or steel-tipped bamboo poles. In Rawalpindi, 20,000 students marched for seven hours, shouting "Death to Ayub!" and "Bhutto zin-dabad!" (Long live Bhutto.) It was the largest protest in the capital since Ayub came to power ten years ago. The crowd was peaceful at first, but then attacked two pro-government newspaper offices...
...commander until 1965, to enter politics on the side of Ayub's opposition. The 47-year-old Asghar Khan has so far refused to ally himself directly with any of the opposition parties. But he is stumping the country with a campaign that calls for the release of Bhutto and demands an end to the bribery, nepotism and incompetence that he says are rampant in the government of President Ayub...