Bhutto: A Political Biography (Political Studies of the Middle East)
Bhutto: A Political Biography (Political Studies of the Middle East) by
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0903729490 | 211 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0903729490 | 211 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a political phenomenon. In a country where the majority of politicians have been indistinguishable, grey and quick to compromise, he stalked among them as a Titan. He has been called ‘blackmailer’, ‘opportunist’, ‘Bhutto Khan’ (an undisguised comparison with Pakistan’s military dictators Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan) and ‘His Imperial Majesty the Shahinshah of Pakistan’ by his enemies. Time magazine referred to him as a ‘whiz kid’ on his coming to power in 1971. His supporters called him Takhare Asia’ (The Pride of Asia) and Anthony Howard, writing of him in the New Statesman, London, said ‘arguably the most intelligent and plausibly the best read of the world’s rulers’. Peter Gill wrote of him in the Daily Telegraph, London: ‘At 47, he has become one of the third world’s most accomplished rulers.’ And then later, after a change of heart and Bhutto’s fall from power, he described him as ‘one of nature’s bounders’. Senator McGovern called him ‘a man of peace’. The spectrum of epithets is wide, as indeed the man was complex.