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“Tu shaaheen hai, basaira kar pharaon kee chatanon pur”..

“Jhapatna palatna, palat kar jhapatna;

Lahu garm rakhne ka hai ik bahana”…..Alama Iqbal

Study hard and learn a lot. Be humble. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto advised your mother to do twice more than what he had done. It is up to you to do more. Meet the people of Pakistan. Travel up and down, North and South. Live in a village. Drink the dirty water in Sindh and eat food on Food Street in Lahore. Enjoy the nightlife of Karachi and the Chapli kababs of Peshawar. Visit the 7000 year old agricultural site in Mehergarh Baluchistan and meet the sardars and the youth. Go to Azad Kashmir stand on the Cease Fire Line and in a Reaganesque regal manner scream at occupied Kashmir “You will be liberated-Kashmir banaiga Pakistan”. This will build your character and make you a Pakistani. As Zulfiqar said “don’t be scared to kiss the ground“.

My mother once told me “dhol to sub bajatay hain, galay main dal keh mutt bajana“. we know you have been having fun in Oxford. If you can’t get this let me translate it in your terms —avoid your pics on Facebook! 

Think of “our” Muhammad, not the one portrayed by them. Our heroes are Ibn Rushd, Moinuddin Chisti, and those who acquired knowledge. Be inspired by Babur and read his Tuzk e Babri. Think of what Alexander accomplished. He was a young man like you. And Ali–your grandfather was Ali’s sword. 

Whether you hate the Bhutto family or you love them, every Pakistani must read the works of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. We were astonished to discover that the current PPP website does not have the works of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto posted on it. We did discover them on Bhutto.org and read them again. The videos are not there. Here is a “must read” list for you, Sanam and for all Pakistanis. When watch his speeches on YouTube tears swell up in our eyes.

• Peace-Keeping by the United Nations. Pakistan Publishing House, Karachi. - 1967
• Political Situation in Pakistan, Veshasher Prakashan, New Dehli. - 1968
• The Myth of Independence, Oxford University Press, Karachi and Lahore. - 1969
• The Great Tragedy, Pakistan People’s Party, Karachi. - 1971
• Politics of the People (speeches, statements and articles),edited by Hamid Jalal and Khalid Hasan: Pakistan Publications, Rawalpindi. - 1948-1971
• Speeches and Statements, Government of Pakistan, Karachi. - 1971-75
• Bilateralism: New Directions. Government of Pakistan, Islamabad - 1976
• The Third World: New Directions. Quartet Books, London. - 1977
• My Pakistan.Biswin Sadi Publications, New Dehli. - 1979
• If I am Assassinated,Vikas, New Dehli. - 1979
• My Execution.Musawaat Weekly International, London - 1980
• New Directions.Narmara Publishers, London. - 1980  

Read what your grandfather is telling you from his grave. Take it to your heart.

What celebration can I hold for you? I give you the celebration of a celebrated memory and a celebrated name. You are the heir to and inheritor of the most ancient civilization. Please make your full contribution to making this ancient civilization the most progressive and the most powerful. By progressive and powerful I do not mean the most dreaded. A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science, with modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search. In other words, a classless society has to emerge but not necessarily a Marxist society. The Marxist society has created its own class structure. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto A letter from the Death Cell (2007)] p. 15

PPP HAD THREATENED “DAM A DAM MAST QALANDAR“: Nasty foreign varmint are waiting in the wings to take advantage of anything in Pakistan. Watch out for them. The hooliganism, looting, pillage and mayhem last year in Pakistan was unwarranted. PPP over-reacted after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto because they did not want to be accused of servitude. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s  prophecy that his “assassination on the gallows” would result “in rivers of blood flowing from Peshawar to Karachi remained unfulfilled”.

You should be speaking against this type of nonsense on every occasion.

WATCH OUT FOR THE FLATTERERS: They are the worst. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s friends had sold him out to the establishment. One became a Prime Minister for a brief period of time. Others were promised freedom. All of them were rejected by the masses and became petty parochial provincial leaders. “Chiraag talay andhera”. Imagine Zulfiqar Ali an international leader and think of these “grand uncles” who are seeking provincial autonomy for their districts. What a waste of human capital!

EMBRACE CRITICISM: Keep those who criticize you near you. Accept criticism. It is s treasure of knowledge. Differentiate critics from opponents. This was a weakness of your ancestors. Learn this developed skill. Use the criticism to improve yourself and your policies.

STAND UP TO THE ARROGANT BULLIES. DON’T BE SCARED TO SPEAK UP FOR THE WEAK AND THE OPPRESSED!

Whenever you see a wrong, in your party, in your family or elsewhere, speak up! Your voice will be heard far and wide! Speak up against the wrongs of the PPP. The Pakistani people are hungry for a voice of reason.

Take up a cause. Help rebuild Pakistan. Help the earthquake victims. Partner up with Harry and William. Raise money for a village and build it yourself. “Don’t be scared to kiss the ground.“

CREATE A NEW IMAGE OF PAKISTAN: You are the new image!

People look up to you. Help us all create a new image of Pakistan. Chaudhry Rehmat Ali lies buried a few miles of you. He created a vision with a brochure. See what you can do. We are all waiting to see your vision and your leadership.

Don’t do anything you would be ashamed of. Don’t let the Crescent and Star down! Keep it flying high! You have to hold the fort, learn all the entrances and exits.

BE POSITIVE-BUILD ALLIANCES WITH YOUR OPPONENTS: Dump the revenge fantasies. Build coalitions with everyone. Accept your opponents as your allies. Learn from Lincoln. He used all his opponents to build a successful Union. As you grow up, think not of the sadness, think of legacy of your great grand-father (Shahnawaz Bhutto) and your grand-father (Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto). Now you must take the torch of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and move forward with it. Get rid of the “advisors” who were rejected by the people of Pakistan.

CONNECT WITH THE MASSES LIKE JINNAH AND ZAB:LEARN THE LANGUAGE AND THE COMMUNICATION: Understand Iqbal and read him often. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had this uncanny ability to connect with the masses. Other than Jinnah and Liaqat Ali Khan no other Pakistani leader has had this ability. We used to listen to him speak for up-to 6 hours at a time. He would make us laugh and make us cry. He lifted the spirits of a heart-broken and dejected nation in 1971. He would appear on TV and in public places often and without fear. In the beginning he could speak little Urdu, but he learned it quickly. What was more important was the message. The content of his speech was what made fans out of every Pakistani that heard him. Learn the National and Provincial languages and watch the speeches of Zulfiqar Ali. Remember this about your grandfather. It is true. History has born this out:

“You cannot be big unless you are prepared to kiss the ground. You cannot defend the soil unless you know the smell of that soil. I know the smell of our soil. I know the rhythm of our rivers. I know the beat of our drums. The theories, the dogmas and the scripts stand outside the gates of history. The dominant factor is the aspiration of the people and the ability to seek total identification with it. Once the significance of the symphony is grasped, the lines fall into place, the dogmas and theories get legs to move in time to the majesty of that music. This does not mean that I am preaching pragmatism. There is a lot of expediency in pragmatism. I am trying to trace the roots of the problems, the genesis of the challenges, the cause of the struggle.” p. 15. :Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto A letter from the Death Cell (2007)]

“When the history of this country is written it will be admitted by our people and by the world outside that no individual has rendered so much service to the cause of socialism in Pakistan as I have done.” Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

ZAB WAS POPULAR BECAUSE HE DID NOT PLAGIARIZE–HE BUILT A NEW PHILOSOPHY:–UNIQUE TO PAKISTAN. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was not enamored by existing political polity. He created a local structure and philosophy. He never used “Talking points” from other shining capitals. His version of “musawat e Mohammadi” was named Islamic Socialism. It was new, it was unique and it caught on.

The favourite slogan, the one that caught on during the May 1968 fête in France was “it is forbidden to forbid”. There is nothing to forbid the youth of Europe to reject both communism and capitalism. What will they build in the absence of both systems? Will their concept of building a new structure with a new philosophy mean willful self-destruction? This sounds insane but the youth of Europe is not insane. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto A letter from the Death Cell (2007)] p. 15  p. 20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMvHh1RfcM8

OUR UNIQUE PAKISTANI IDENTITY: HE WORE THE COMMON MANS CLOTHES:

ZAB was the first politician who wore the common man’s clothes. Once when he was threatened with an assassination, he threw away the podium, tore open his shirt and asked his people to defend him from the assassins bullet. It gave all of a sense of identity. No one dared to sheet him on his chest. They “stabbed” him from the back in the middle of the night. Who did it? Lady Macbeth says “the Raven himself is hoarse that becons the entrance”. Macbeth answers “he is here in double trust, first as him kinsmen and then his subject…who should again the murderer shut the door, not bear the knife himself“ 

ZAB TALKED ABOUT JUNAGARH AND MANVADAR AND KASHMIR

Your great grandfather was the Prime Minsiter of Junagarh and convinced the Raja to join Pakistan.  An article of accession with Junagarh and Manvadar were signed to Pakistan, similar to the one forged on Kashmir by India. Only the one with Manvadar and Juangarh were real. Pakistani maps showed Junagarh and Manvadar as Paksitani territory. Don’t forget those states of Pakistan.

ZAB held an informal referendum in Occupied Kashmir. He asked the Kashmiris to go on strike to show support for Pakistan. They did! Nothing moved in Occupied Kashmir. It showed the world that the Kashmir issue was alive. It gave them hope!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5eYP_V8tkg

…he formed the OIC…and it gave us all hope.

He inspired an entire nation. His speech at the UN was not about despair. He was indignant, and angry, he repudiated the powerful and then symbolically walked out of the impotent UN because the conspiring powers supported the aggression of India.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdp0gNfodkc

…while Bhutto was making an impassioned speech about reversing the army out of Dhaka and not awarding aggression….he asked one of the ambassadors who was smiling…

“the ambassador is smiling…what is so great about him…his hands are covered in blood”

“so what if Dhaka falls…so what if East Pakistan falls…we will build a new Pakistan, a bigger and better Pakistan”…..

Even in defeat he was defiant!

He talked about “picking the pieces.”

…even after 1971 he tried to get the new leader of Bangladesh Khondkar Mushtaque to form a confederation with Pakistan and for the briefest moment Mr. Mushtaqueannounced a confederation with Pakistan. Unfortunately Khondkar was overthrown and Bangladesh remained Bangladesh. Of course the powers did not want such a powerful nation.

INTERNAL RECONCILIATION. HOW ABOUT REACHING OUT TO THE OTHER ESTRANGED BHUTTOS.

Charity begins at home! Reach out to Fatima Bhutto and Zulfiqar Ali Nhutto Jr. Include them into the legacy of your grandfather. Fatima is a brilliant activist like Sanam. Hold a judicial inquiry into the death of her father and your uncle and publish the Hamood ur Rehman Commission Report. 

DO NOT PLAY GOD OR “Le ETAT, CEST MOI” and DO NOT USE THE WORD “disintegration“or Simla

The Pakistani nation is not looking for a “God” or figure to save them. No one person can do that. Do not bring bad memories to mind. Do not celebrate anything on December 16th. Using the word “disintegration” catches up with the psyche of the nation. Pakistanis hate he word Simla. Don’t mention it. Pakistanis freeze up and get disgusted when Simla is mentioned. Then they get angry. Pledge “Never Again” with them and sing “Jeeway Pakistan.”

GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY IS THE NEED OF THE DAY: On building a consensus in Pakistan. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was able to bring together diverse groups like the NAP, JI, JUI, PML and others and got consensus for the 1973 Constitution. This is a learned skill and you can do it. Reach out to the MQM and the PML:

“We badly need to gather our thoughts and clear our minds. We need a political ceasefire without conceding ideological territory. We need a ceasefire to bury dead thoughts and to overcome fatigue. The modus vivendi has to be honourable and above board. Both sides have lost or, should I say, neither side can win. During the ceasefire a combination of existing forces might create a new order or a new equation between existing forces”

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto A letter from the Death Cell (2007)] p. 15  p. 28

Read world history and our own history to figure things out. Zulfiqar read Nehru’s Glimpses of World History. I did too. It is a good book for 13 year olds. This is what ZAB says.

“in Western estimation it is preferable to be a communist leader of a communist state, than to be a non-communist leader of a non-communist state having friendly relations with communist states. The anomaly does not cease here. It is even more dangerous to be pro-West. One disagreement in defence of a national cause, and out goes that civilian leader by a coup d’etat. He gets replaced by a tin-pot military dictator who would not dare to disagree about anything, including the vital national interests of his country”   Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto A letter from the Death Cell (2007)p. 69

A military junta is the herald of communism. The failure to realize this axiomatic fact is the cause of the confusion in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Military rule turns the people totally and irrev