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...established the leaders of the two parties as politicians to be reckoned with for some time to come in the world's fifth most populous (130 million) nation. They are East Pakistan's Sheik Mujibur Rahman, 48, head of the Awami League, and West Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former Foreign Minister and head of the Pakistan People's Party...
...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...
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...
President Ayub Khan had evidently seriously misjudged the mood of Pakistan. Three weeks ago, in an effort to calm the country's increasingly troubled political scene, the President ordered the arrest of left-leaning Opposition Leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. But the un rest continued, and last week, in one of Pakistan's most turbulent periods since independence in 1947, thousands of angry citizens, mostly students, surged through the streets virtually every day in protest against Ayub's rule...
...police arrested 141 opposition politicians, including Ayub's chief rival, ex-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto...