Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

In March [1972] the unity of Pakistan depended on the suppression of the secessionists. But to carry it out with such brutality…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

That Mujib [Rahiman] had been arrested I found out at eight in the morning, when I left. How did I take it?…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems.…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Mujib [Rahman], as you've seen, is a congenital liar. He can't help telling lies - it's something stronger than he.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Tear gas, rubber bullets, and I would have arrested all the leaders. Oh, only a disgusting drunkard like ex-President Yahya Khan could…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

I've known him since 1954 and I've never taken Mujib Rahiman seriously - I understood from the very first moment that there…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

[Tikka Khan] made his appeal with loudspeakers, and still he came to know of only four cases. Shall we multiply by ten…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

We know who left the country. And many were Bengalis from West Bengal, sent from Calcutta. It was she who sent them…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

In April [1972], after that fine business in Dacca, Yahya Khan sent for me. He looked satisfied, sure of himself, by now…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

[Tikka Khan] went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Mujib [Rahman] talks at random, depending on his mood and the disorders of his sick mind.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

[Yahya Khan ] I have a big problem on my hands with him. I've set up a war commission to study the…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Do you know that Yahya Khan's first victim was not to have been Mujib [ Rahman] but myself? Many people in my…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto