Word: zulfikar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Western intelligence experts believe that Pakistan has been trying for at least 15 years to develop a nuclear bomb, primarily to strengthen its defenses against neighboring India. When New Delhi tested its first atomic bomb in 1974, Islamabad stepped up its own efforts. The late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was then Pakistan's Prime Minister, warned that "we will eat leaves and grass, even go hungry" to build the country's own weapon. "There's a Hindu bomb, a Jewish bomb and a Christian bomb," Bhutto once wrote. "There must be an Islamic bomb...
Innocent he said he was and innocent Zulfikar Ali Bhutto [April 16] will always be in the minds and hearts of the poor people of Pakistan. His positive achievements far outnumber the misdeeds he may have committed. The only popular and nationally recognized political personality ever to emerge after independence is gone. A great leader has been taken away from his people by force...
...death-cell prediction by former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
...according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away to a waiting air force plane and flown to the town of Larkana, 200 miles northeast of Karachi. There, in his family's burial plot, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 51, the most popular civilian politician to come to power in Pakistan's 32 years of independence, was hastily interred last week before the country was told of his death...
...DIED. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 51, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; by hanging; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan (see WORLD...