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Ali Bhutto, de son nom complet Zulfikar Ali Bhutto est un homme d'État pakistanais, né le 5 janvier 1928 à Larkana dans le Sind et mort pendu le 4 avril 1979 à Rawalpindi. Fondateur du Parti du peuple pakistanais et socialiste, il a été au pouvoir de 1971 à 1977 et est l'une des figures majeures de l'histoire du pays.

Commençant sa carrière politique sous le régime militaire de Muhammad Ayub Khan, il est ministre des Affaires étrangères avant de démissionner en 1966. Il s'oppose ensuite au régime en fondant le PPP qui devient la force centrale du pays après les élections législatives de 1970 et la sécession du Bangladesh. Il est président de la République entre 1971 et 1973, puis Premier ministre de 1973 à 1977 après avoir fait adopter une nouvelle Constitution qui confère au chef du gouvernement la réalité du pouvoir exécutif.

Menant une politique se réclamant du socialisme islamique, il nationalise une partie de l'économie tout en étant critiqué pour son autoritarisme. Le 5 juillet 1977, il est renversé par son chef de l'armée Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq après des élections législatives contestées, puis exécuté par pendaison en 1979.

Son héritage politique est considérable, son parti étant resté l'une des principales forces du pays. Sa fille, Benazir Bhutto, devient cheffe du parti en 1984 et sera deux fois Première ministre entre 1988 et 1996. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. janvier 1928 – 4. avril 1979
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“Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.”

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As quoted in The New York Times (6 July 1973).

“For Christians, the teaching and directives of Christ are more Sacred than those of a Messenger of God. According to the Christians, those teaching and directives are of God Himself. Most of the problems of the Third World would be solved if the Christian West implemented in letter and spirit only one directive of Jesus Christ. The directive to "Render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar and to God that which belongs to God". The Third World only want what belongs to it and nothing more. For over two hundred years, the Christian civilization of the West has been mercilessly violating this directive of Jesus Christ. The West has been taking everything belonging to Caesar and everything belonging to God. The West is not dividing the share equitably. It is not rendering to us what belongs to us. This division relates to the economic, social, racial and political rights of the Third World.”

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Source: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 72.

“When I went to America, her message had so sunk into my ears that I became a radical. I went to America to study at the University of California, where a jurist of international law was teaching. I wanted to take my degree in international law. And that was the period of McCarthyism, of the communist witch hunts—my choices were laid out. To get away from Sunset Boulevard, from the girls with red nail polish, I ran off to Maxwell Street and lived among the Negroes. A week, a month. I felt good with them—they were real, they knew how to laugh. And the day in San Diego when I wasn’t able to get a hotel room because I have olive skin and looked like a Mexican … well, that helped.”

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Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972

“So I must proceed with patience, by reforms, measures that will gradually lead to socialism—nationalizing when possible, refraining from it when necessary, respecting the foreign capital of which we have need. I must take my time, be a surgeon who doesn’t plunge his knife too deeply into the fabric of society. This is a very sick society, and if it’s not to die under the knife, you have to oper­ ate with caution, waiting slowly for a wound to heal, for a reform to be consolidated. We’ve been asleep for so many centuries, we can’t violently wake ourselves up with an earthquake. Besides, even Lenin, in the beginning, stooped to compromises.”

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Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972

“And I say something else. If I were to ascertain that our soldiers really used violence on the women of Bangladesh, I’d insist on being the one to try them and punish them.”

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Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972

“Mrs. Gandhi has only one dream: to take over the whole sub­ continent, to subjugate us. She’d like a confederation so as to make Pakistan disappear from the face of the earth, and that’s why she says we’re brothers, and so forth. We’re not brothers. We never have been. Our religions go too deep into our souls, into our ways of life. Our cultures are different, our attitudes are different. From the day they’re born, to the day they die, a Hindu and a Muslim are subject to laws and customs that have no points of contact. Even their ways of eating and drinking are different. They’re two strong and irrecon­ cilable faiths. It’s shown by the fact that neither of the two has ever succeeded in reaching a compromise with the other, a modus vivendi. Only dictatorial monarchies, foreign invasions, from the Mongols to the British, have succeeded in holding us together by a kind of Pax Romana. We’ve never arrived at a harmonious relationship.”

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Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972

“Politically the Mukti Bahini count for nothing, lacking as they do any ideological preparation, any indoctrination, any discipline. Then socially speaking, they’re a disturbance—they only know how to fire in the air, frighten people, steal, yell Joi Bangla. And you can’t run a country by yelling Joi Bangla. The Bengali Maoists, on the other hand … well, they certainly don’t represent a very refined productat most they’ve read half of Mao’s little red book. But they’re an articulate force and don’t let themselves be used by the Indians, and I don’t even think they’re against the unity of Pakistan. They’ll end up having the upper hand.”

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Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972

“Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier’s job. He 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 agree­ ment, and I picked him because I know he’ll follow my orders with the same discipline. And he won’t try to stick his nose in politics. I can’t destroy the whole army, and anyway his bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated. 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. They thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad. Yahya Khan wasn’t interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else. 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 him. He was really Jack the Ripper.”

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Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972

“Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary. For instance, in the name of unity. You can’t build without destroying. To build a country, 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. Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppres­sion is justifiable and justified.”

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Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972

“According to what I’ve been able to find out so far, there must have been something like fifty thousand. Mind you, too many. Even if the action was morally justified. I’m not trying to minimize things; I’m trying to bring them back to reality—there’s quite a dif­ference between fifty thousand and three million.”

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Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972

“Oh, Mrs. Gandhi is wrong about her father! Nehru instead was a great politician—she should have half her father’s talent! Look, even though he was against the principle of Pakistan, I’ve always admired that man. When I was young I was actually enthralled by him. Only later did I understand that he was a spellbinder with many faults, vain, ruthless, and that he didn’t have the class of a Stalin or a Churchhill or a Mao Tse-tung.”

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Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Ali Bhutto in Karachi, April 1972

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