Bhutto Saab Remembered
Friends and foes alike agree at least this that he has no equal. Even with his handful of mistakes included Z A Bhutto remains the most successful Prime Minister of Pakistan since its inception. His legacy too is without equal and can be summed up in short as Pakistan’s ABC:
Awaam – ZAB’s Pakistan took politics into the chowks and katchi abadis and away from the drawing rooms of the political elite. Consequently he remains the only true awaami leader since the Quaid.
Bomb – Pakistan owes its collective honour to ZAB, the father of a Nuclear Pakistan.
Constitution – The contract between Pakistan’s luckless citizens and state, another legacy.
But even on this day I still feel that Bhutto saab is not dead, that he has never left us. Rather he is alive in the hearts of his awaam and in their joyful memories. Let us make sure we keep him there forever.
I finish this post with the words of Shaheed Bhutto saab, the legend himself :
‘Perhaps I have embedded myself too deep in the hearts of the poor of this land for others to comprehend the phenomenon. It may sound a rotten cliche if I say that I am a household word in every home and under every roof that leaks in rain. I belong to the sweat and sorrow of this land, I have an eternal bond with the people which armies cannot break’
Jeeyo Bhutto Saab
Aaj Bhi Bhutto Zinda Hai , Kal Bhi Bhutto Zinda Tha
Bhutto Zindabad
- Originally posted on 4th April 2008, 01:44 PK Time, written under MARTIAL LAW
