ZULFIKARALI BHUTTO’S LETTER TO PRESIDENT MIRZA, 1958.
(Shahzad Shameem, Abbottabad)
The following letter was
written by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to President Iskander Mirza while Bhutto was in
Genevato chair the Pakistan delegation to the United Nations Conference on the
Law of the Sea in early 1958.
Bhutto was just thirty year old and rather young for such an appointment. It was
thought that he was chosen due to his extraordinary intelligence, brilliant
credentials as a lawyer and boon companionship with President Mirza,
strengthened by their hunting expeditions on Bhutto’s family lands in Larkana,
Sindh.
Source: Gauhar.com
ZulfikarAli Bhutto’s Letter to President Mirza April, 1958
H.E. Major-General Iskander Mirza,
President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,
Karachi,
Pakistan.
My Dear Sir,
Only a few lines to let you know that I am discharging my responsibilities here
to the best of my ability. I shall give you a detailed report of my work on my
return to Pakistan and I am sure you will be satisfied with the manner in which
I have done my humble best to serve the interests of my Country and my
President.
I would like to take this opportunity to reassure you of my imperishable and
devoted loyalty to you. Exactly four months before the death of my late Father,
he had advised me to remain steadfastly loyal to you as you were “not an
individual but an institution”. For the greater good of my own Country, I feel
that your services to Pakistan are indispensable. When the history of our
Country is written by objective historians, your name will be placed even before
that of Mr. Jinnah. Sir, I say this because I mean it and not because you are
the President of my Country. If I have the conviction and the courage to enter
into a dispute with a Prime Minister, I do not think I could be found guilty of
the charge of flattery.
If you and the Begum Sahiba require anything from here, please do not hesitate
to order me for it.
With profoundest respects both to you and to the Begum Sahiba,
Yours sincerely,
(Zulfikar Ali Bhutto)