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Speeches of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
1966-69
Conway
Hall, London, August 13, 1966
Interview to B.B.C.
Pakistan and Nuclear-Proliferation
Larkana, December 29, 1966
My
Debut in Journalism
The Pakistan Observer, Dacca,
12 January, 1967
Pakistan's
Isolation
Speech at Inter-Collegiate Students'' Body
Meeting,
Lahore, February 4, 1967
On
Accusations by the Ayub Regime
Address to Young Lawyers' Circle
Lahore, February 25, 1967
Starting with a Clean Slate
Address to the Muzaffargarh Bar
Association,
January 17, 1968
Role
of Women
Address to P.P.P. Women Workers, Lahore,
January 29, 1968
We Shall Not Be
Cowed
Speech at a Public
Meeting at Mirpur Khas,
February 18. 1968
Address to Nawabshah Bar Association
February 21, 1968
Incompetence Intensifies Crisis
Address to the Khairpur Bar Association,
March 8, 1968
Address at a Public Meeting at Khairpur
Mirs
A New Class of Landlords
Address at Larkana Bar Association,
March 12, 1968
Political Situation in Pakistan
A Pamphlet April, 1968
On Leaving the Government
Address at Sind Convention, Hyderabad,
September 21, 1968
Speech at a Public Meeting,
Kohat, October 25, 1968
Address to Party Workers,
Peshawar, October 26, 1968
Public
Speech at Charsadda,
October
27, 1968
Speech
at Party Meeting, Peshawar,
October
27, 1968
Speech
at Ismailia,
Peshawar, October 28, 1968
Speech
at Public Meeting.
Abbottabad, October 29. 1968
Speech
at Public Meeting,
Mansehra, October 30, 1968
Speech
at Workers' Meeting, Campbellpur,
October 30, 1968
Address
at its Frontier Convention,
Sherpao, November 3, 1968
Speech
at a Public Meeting, Peshawar,
November 5, 1968
Address
at Karachi Press Club,
January 18, 1969
Affidavit in High Court, Lahore,
February 5, 1969
Statement in High Court, Lahore,
February 7, 1969
Address
at the District Bar Association, Hyderabad,
June
26, 1969
Press
Conference at Multan,
November 30, 1969 |
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Western institutional
democracy has held sway over Asia and been responsible for many salutary
developments. It has inspired our people to wage a heroic struggle for
national independence. It has influenced our thoughts and actions and
provided blue-prints for the future. But with all its admitted virtues,
Western institutional democracy is also responsible for considerable
confusion and dislocation in Asia and Africa. John Lock and Stuart Mill
with all their acknowledged contributions were born neither in Lahore
nor in Jakarta. Our leaders who came out of Oxford and Cambridge, and
even Sandhurst, were imbued with Western democratic ideals. They grasped
the concept and sought to apply it to our conditions. What we really bad
to do was to begin with a clean slate and evolve a system from the
foundation of our conditions instead of applying anything from above.
India has democratic
institutions but today India is in shambles. Its democracy is unnatural.
Despite all the propaganda and pageantry, India's democracy has failed
because democracy is alien to India's philosophy and mentality.
Democracy cannot arise out of inequality and intolerance. The philosophy
of India arises out of exploitation and domination and defies both
democracy and ideology. Neither democracy nor ideology can motivate
India's polity.
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In fact no country in
Asia and Africa can follow in the footsteps of America. When America
came into being it was far away from the rest of the world. Wars and
political strife in Europe did not affect it. The revolutions that took
place in Europe also did not have any effect on the American system.
America had a small population, while its resources were immensly vast
Because of these two factors the system of free enterprise nourished in
America. This happened about two hundred years ago and the system worked
quite successfully because of their small population and the presence of
large resources like oil. When President Roosevelt was elected, he
brought about many reforms to break the monopoly system. He introduced a
law which struck at the roots of the monopolies of a few families. This
was called the New Deal. So, even in a country like America, which had
immense resources as against a small population, many changes had to be
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