Bhuttos through tragedies-some old memories.

Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was born on 21 June 1953 in Karachi. She was the first child of her parents, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Begum Nusrat Bhutto. She was given the name of an aunt of hers who had died young.

She was five when her father became the cabinet minister for energy, and when she was nine General Ayub Khan made Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the country's foreign minister.

From an early age, Mohtarma was exposed to foreign diplomats and figures who were visiting her father, including Zhou Enlai, Henry Kissinger, and Hubert Humphrey as she had a keen interest in politics since childhood. From 1969 to 1973, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard University.

In 1974, she reached Lahore to accompany her father at the OIC summit where she was introduced to a number of the senior Muslim world leaders including Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Syria's Hafez al-Assad, Saudi Arabia's Faisal, and Jordan's Hussein.

After the completion of her Post Graduate degree, she returned to Pakistan in June 1977 and assisted her father who had just sworn in as the Prime Minister and she joined the Prime Minister's office to pursue a career in the Pakistani Foreign Service.

Mohtarma was forced into politics after her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was assassinated. He was the one who laid the foundation of true democracy and justice in Pakistan and became the victim of brutal injustice in the hands of the worst dictator in the history of Pakistan, General Zia Ul Haq.

He was an unmatched national leader and statesman who revived a broken nation after the disaster of the fall of Dhaka by bringing back 90,000 prisoners of war.

The enemies of Pakistan had no choice other than eliminating him after he refused the rollback of Pakistan's nuclear programme despite the threat of making him a 'horrible example'.

General Zia Ul Haq was a puppet of the CIA which had hatched a plan to block communism, using Islam through him. The world knows today how he preached his own brand of Islam wherein he promoted extremism, fanaticism, sectarianism, and all kind of criminals under the name of Jihad.

These extremists and criminal elements were brought and nourished by the USA in Pakistan for launching them in Afghanistan to operate.

The then director CIA W. J Casey has disclosed the details of the meeting in his memoirs where, inter alia, CIA Director W. J Casey narrates as to how Gen. Zia was recruited while he was specially posted.

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