needed it-the situation in neighbouring in the region.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
If Zulfigar Ali Bhutto is now regarded by the downtrodden then the entire credit for this acmevemen should go General Zia-ul-Haq and band of civilian sycophants who now run the country.
The authors of the Martial Law have transformed the country into a pontical concentration and cultural influential of the right-wing Cabinet are members of the neo-fascist Jamaat-i-Islami. It ecialist Che JUST to add to the Shah of Iran's problems-as if he threatens further to destabilise imperialism's interests is they who determine social and cultural policies.
INTIMIDATION On the economic his denationalisations of essential MOUSLEC. being motion and the third thousands of workers are under threat. The condition of the peasants is worse than it has been for two decades.
If one adds the imprisonment and flogging of journalists, Zia's public executions, cal arrests, the killing of workers strike 23 November 1978 e 10 industrial township of Multan, and the use of religion as an instrument of intimidation and oppression, picture of Zia's Pakistan.
FORGOTTEN
But all these measures have only made Bhutto into a hero once again. His flagrant abuse democratic autocratic behaviour, and the vindictive style of his regime are all being rapidly forgotten. front The Jamaat-i-Islami spreading discredit him. jobs of states that Bhutto's mother was of Hindu stock.
A friend just back fron Karachi describes a conversa• non wiln a peasant woman. *After. I had exhausted all the regime s DENCI mass politi- against Bhutto I said they're saying his mother was a Hindu."
''So inen one gets a was? A Muslim?"
of Pakistan.
tendencies tan, rights, his beginning loyalties.
nalists ooserved are National Day'.
rumours One of these shocked by response to his rather OH ONE Bhutto's anesanons **But discontent.
what", she replied, you think the Prophet Mohammed's mother Zia is busy digging the grave huo sexed. tion will spark off centrifugal SERICE smaller provinces of Baluchis Sneaneut to shift their Recently the Baluchi natio*Baluchistan A moderate Raluchi leader. Bizenio. WYCh the government mild statement that there were four role is. nationalities in Pakistan. The government claims that there is productive execution could fuse the national struggle with logically Bhutto alive. the growing social and political Outside forces could then move in to ensure/a
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TARIQ ALI looks at the growing crisis of the military regime as the Supreme Court continues its deliberations on the fate of former prime minister