Word: bhutto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, Yahya may find himself compelled to put his government at least partly in civilian hands. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, leader of West Pakistan's majority Pakistan People's Party and Yahya's most probable choice for Prime Minister, has become more and more outspoken about "the rule of the generals." Recently he said: "The long night of terror must end. The people of Pakistan must take their destiny in their own hands." Formerly that sort of talk would have landed him in jail. Now even Yahya seems to have recognized that unless the military allows some sort...
...resisted Mujib's demands for autonomy. Postponing the Constitutional Assembly, he flew to Dacca and in eleven days of meetings with Mujib came almost within sight of a compromise agreement. Yahya, however, demanded that the leader of West Pakistan's majority party, ex-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, also be a party to the agreement. Bhutto insisted on heading the foreign ministry while Mujib maintained that, with an overall majority, he had the right to form a government without Bhutto...
...remained, in many respects, a political moderate. He is a social democrat who favors nationalizing major industries, banks and insurance companies. In foreign policy too he follows a middle course. Where West Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto favors closer ties with China and the Soviet Union and is stridently anti-Indian, Mujib would like to trade with India and is regarded as moderately pro-Western...
...West Pakistan, ex-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his Pakistan People's Party emerged as the strongest force, capturing 83 of 144 seats. Bhutto, 43, and Mujib, 48, are poles apart. Son of a wealthy feudal landowning family. Bhutto is pro-Chinese and anti-Indian: Mujib, product of a middle-class village family, is pro-Western and would like to make peace with India. More important, most of West Pakistan's capitalists, bureaucrats and army officers support Bhutto, who opposes Mujib's six points because they would destroy Pakistan's unity and his own ambitions...
Following the December elections, Mujib twice turned down Yahya's invitations to confer in Islamabad, the national capital located in the West. Yahya went to Dacca, the capital of East Pakistan, and so did Bhutto. They got nowhere with Mujib, who warned stiffly that the minority would no longer rule the majority...