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• I've known him since 1954 and I've never taken Mujib Rahiman seriously - I understood from the very first moment that there was no depth to him, no preparation, that he was an agitator breathing a lot of fire and with an absolute lack of ideas.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Taken, Fire, Breathing

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• I don't say it in the Indian fashion that is hypocritically. I say it sincerely because, instead of hatred, I feel great compassion for Mujib Rahiman.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Fashion, Compassion, Hatred

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• That Mujib [Rahiman] had been arrested I found out at eight in the morning, when I left. How did I take it? I was glad he was alive and I thought they might have maltreated him a little. Then I thought that his arrest might help to reach a compromise. They wouldn't keep him in prison more than a month or two, and in the meantime we'd be able to bring back law and order.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Morning, Two, Eight

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• I felt certain uneasiness, a strange sensation, which had comic to a head. Every evening I went to Yahya to report that Mujib [Rahiman] and I weren't making any progress, and Yahya [Khan] showed no interest. He looked away or complained about the television or grumbled because he couldn't listen to his favorite songs - his records hadn't arrived from Rawalpindi.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Song, Progress, Evening

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• The fact is that when you talk about Mujib [Rahiman], everything seems so incredible. I don't understand how the world can take him seriously.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  World, Facts, Incredibles

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• I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Differences

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Disaster, Method, Intimidated

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• In April [1972], after that fine business in Dacca, Yahya Khan sent for me. He looked satisfied, sure of himself, by now convinced he had the situation in hand. He offered me a drink. "Well, you politicians are really finished," he said. Then he said that not only Mujib but I too was considered an agitator, I too was preaching against the unity of Pakistan. "I'm always under pressure to arrest you, Bhutto" I got so angry I lost all control.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Hands, Unity, Bhutto

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Tasks, Impossible, Reason

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• Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  War, Firsts, Gang

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• [Yahya Khan ] I have a big problem on my hands with him. I've set up a war commission to study the responsibilities inherent in the recent conflict.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  War, Responsibility, Hands

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn't stop until he goes to bed? You've no idea how painful it was to deal with Yahya Khan. He was really Jack the Ripper.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Drinking, Ideas, Leader

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• [Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Beautiful, Home, Car

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• Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Country, Government, Sake

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• There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Army, Men, Drunk

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Army, Events, Reputation

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Trying, Noses, Sticks

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• [Tikka Khan] went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to do, though he wasn't always in agreement, and I picked him because I know he'll follow my orders with the same discipline.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Agreement, Order, Discipline

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier's job.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Jobs, Soldier

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• In March [1972] the unity of Pakistan depended on the suppression of the secessionists. But to carry it out with such brutality on the people instead of on those responsible wasn't necessary. That's not the way to convince poor people who've been told that with the Six Points there'll be no more hurricanes, no more floods, no more hunger. I spoke out against such methods more emphatically than anyone else, and when no one dared do so.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  People, Unity, Way

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Justified, Circumstances, Suppression

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• To build a country, [Joseph] Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill. To mention only two recent cases, without raking over the whole history of the world.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Country, Two, Use

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Names, Unity, Destroying

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Country, Exercise, Government

  Source: dhakadigest.net

• [Tikka Khan] made his appeal with loudspeakers, and still he came to know of only four cases. Shall we multiply by ten and make it forty? We're still far from the senseless figures spread around by Mujib [Rahman] and Indra Gandhi.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Four, Figures, Made

  Source: dhakadigest.net