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The Terrorist Prince is a gripping insider’s account of the Pakistani resistance organization Al-Zulfikar (in Urdu, “The Sword”), set up in 1979 after the coup by General Ziaul-Haq and the execution of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Raja Anwar, the author, was an advisor to Prime Minister Bhutto and one of the organizers of the campaign to save his life after his conviction on a trumped-up murder charge. Named as a traitor by Zia, and liable to execution if arrested, Anwar sought asylum in Germany. But when Bhutto’s sons Murtaza and Shahnawaz asked him to join them, he agreed and participated in the founding of Al-Zulfikar.

Raja Anwar recounts the transformation of Al-Zulfikar into a terrorist group, run by Murtaza Bhutto as his own exclusive fiefdom. In 1981, the organization hijacked a Pakistani airline en route to Kabul. Twice it came close to assassinating Zia. For his opposition to Murtaza’s leadership, Anwar was imprisoned in Kabul for four years. Murtaza himself was killed by the police in Karachi in 1996.

Raja Anwar draws unmistakably convincing portraits of the obsessively ruthless Murtaza, his lieutenant, chief executioner and eventual victim, Salamullah Tipu, and the young workers who sacrificed their lives for a corrupted cause. Rich in detail available only to a participant in the turbulent events it portrays, The Terrorist Prince brilliantly fuses the tension and pace of a political thriller with the veracity of first-rate reportage. It is a compelling narrative of ruptures which continue to divide a deeply troubled Pakistan.

252 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1997

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Raja Anwar

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Raja Anwar is a Pakistani journalist, writer, and former PPP political activist. He belongs to the Bhakral Rajput clan. He was born in Kallar Syedan Tehsil.

Anwar was appointed as an adviser on Students and Labour in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government (1974–1977). He escaped to Afghanistan after Bhutto was toppled by a right-wing military coup led by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
In Kabul, Anwar joined Bhutto's elder son, Murtaza Bhutto, and formed Al-Zulfiqar, a leftist insurgency committed to toppling the Zia dictatorship. Raja Anwar had a falling with Murtaza over the latter's controversial terror tactics in 1980 and wanted to return to Pakistan and help Murtaza's sister, Benazir Bhutto's political struggle against Zia. Anwar was imprisoned in a Kabul jail, the Pul-e-Charkhi, but was released in 1985 after Murtaza shifted his operations to Syria.

He came to attention for his book Jhootay Roop Ke Darshan, which is based on his love letters to his secret girlfriend KANWAL(The daughter of a high rank retired army officer), and her replies, during their tenure at Punjab University from 1970 to 1972.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Anwar

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January 24, 2021
This book reads like a political thriller,though it is based on actual events.

Had things worked out differently,Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's elder son,Murtaza Bhutto,would have been next in line for dynastic succession,instead of his sister Benazir Bhutto.That was not to be.

When General Zia ul Haq overthrew the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and hanged him,his two sons,Murtaza and Shahnawaz fled into exile.

They spent considerable time in Afghanistan and married two sisters,who were the daughters of an Afghan government official.They both had a daughter each from these marriages.Murtaza would later divorce his Afghan wife.

The focus of the brothers' activities in Afghanistan was the overthrow of General Zia's regime.Murtaza also repeatedly tried repeatedly to assassinate General Zia,as revenge for his father's hanging.

An organization called Al Zulfikar was formed by the brothers.A PIA plane was hijacked in 1981.The man tasked with the hijacking was Salamullah Tipu,a ruthless killer.The hijackers demanded the release of die hard Bhutto supporters and militants,who had been put in jail by General Zia.

One of the passengers on the plane was Tariq Raheem,he had earlier served as A.D.C to Z.A.Bhutto and was now working in the Pakistan embassy in Tehran.This unfortunate man was shot in cold blood by the hijackers and they threatened to kill more passengers.

General Zia finally gave in and the hijackers' demands were met.Bhutto supporters were released from jail and they and the hijackers found safe haven in Colonel Qaddafi's Libya.

Murtaza Bhutto was also in touch with Yasser Arafat's P.L.O. for arms and ammunition.He even had contacts with the Indian Prime Munister Indira Gandhi,who had played a key role in dismembering Pakistan,in 1971.

The author,Raja Anwar,was a People's Party militant.He joined Murtaza in exile and worked closely with him,but later,the two had a falling out.His picture of Murtaza is that of a violent man and a terrorist.

The Bhutto brothers later left Afghanistan for France.In 1985,the younger brother,Shahnawaz was found dead,at the age of 26.The People's Party blamed General Zia.

But the author's version is that Shahnawaz committed suicide.Murataza's daughter Fatima writes that he blamed his brother's Afghan wife for involvement in the death of Shahnawaz.Murtaza also divorced his own wife,who was the sister of Shahnawaz's wife.His daughter would see her mother just once more,and even then,turned her away.

Murtaza continued to remain on the run,and also spent time in Syria.His second marriage was to a Lebanese woman,Ghinwa,who also brought up his daughter,Fatima Bhutto and is the mother of his son,Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr.

Murtaza eventually returned to Pakistan in the 1990s,but now there were criminal and terrorism charges against him in the country.Despite that,he wanted the leadership of the People's Party,which was now headed by his sister Benazir.

Brother and sister had a falling out and on one occasion,their supporters exchanged fire,resulting in casualties.Murtaza's mother,Nusrat Bhutto supported his claim for leadership.But he had to be content with forming a new faction of the People's Party and heading it.

In 1996,Murtaza Bhutto died in a hail of police bullets while his sister was still Prime Minister ! What's more,his brother in law,the future President,Asif Ali Zardari was blamed for his death by Murtaza's daughter,Fatima.

Although the policemen involved were clearly guilty,they were not convicted and walked free,with some going on to assume senior positions,later on.

Now,the Bhutto family mausoleum in their ancestral village houses the graves of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his three children,Murtaza,Shahnawaz and Benazir.They all met unnatural deaths.

The Terrorist Prince is a compelling read,hard to put down.It is also quite a contrast to Fatima Bhutto's adoring memoir,Songs of Blood and Sword,which glorifies him.
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November 1, 2018
There are always three ends of a story. Yours, theirs and the truth.

Yes. It's possibility that everyone has their own view on anything. Still sometimes we don't accept the truth. Even if it's evident on scales of our perception.

I had decided to write a bitter and obnoxious review earlier but later I decided to leave that thought alone. I am sorry if it still sounds harsh, all I want to explain logically rather than showing my hate towards Bhuttos.
I don't like Bhuttos, not for the sake of being them the Bhuttos but for the basic fundamental reason, Lineal Politics. It doesn't mean that Shareefs got any privilege.

I am not here to defend the book. I am here to defend the right to question any lunatic cult. I am here to defend the right of a common man if he writes someonething which he thinks was the cause of wreckage of his life and a platform created for the rights of a common man. Remember Roti Kapra Makan?

There are some objections on this book. And even on personality of the Author. Why did he join PMLN? Why didn't he write this book on that time? Why does he dislike Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto now? What was the main beef between Raja Anwar and Murtaza? Raja Anwar lies . Etc etc etc
People get mature. On that time everyone couldn't walk away from charisma of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Now if we look back we can see that He was one of causes, if not entirely, of 1971 Dhaka Nullification.
If Raja Anwar joined PMLN, what was wrong in it? Do you see him now?
The beef between Raja Anwar and Murtaza was that Raja Anwar wasn't supporter to this "Ornamental Gorilla Picnic". He wanted a pure political struggle. Meer Murtaza was a Hamalya as far his ego had developed. Anyone who disagreed with him was a traitor for him. Raja Anwar was accused of saying something bad about Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. It was also to be said that accuser had a audio tape as proof but wasn't ever provided.
We also have an "Online Mujahid" who had been making videos declaring this book an hoax. Anyone can listen to his videos, their aren't many serious proofs provided to clear the name of Meer Murtaza.

Our problem as nation is that we have a belief of "Might is Right".
If a celebrity writes something, we just follow them. We can't even consider that they can have common mortal sin The Lie.
We can believe whatever they write in their so called autobiographies whether It's Imran Khan, Benazir or any personality of upper chambers. But if someone like a common does that. We think differently. Still knowing that virtues and sins aren't possessed only by "Barray Log". Everyone has their own sense of justice and honesty.
Look at book of Benazir Bhutto she already accepted it in her book, It was Murtaza who was main culprit in PIA plane hijack.
None even denies that there was an organisation called Al-Zulfiqar. There's none who can deny on basis of facts. If they accept this they still don't believe that their "Meer Baba" can call shots. They still don't know that how much blood of how many people stays on hands of Murtaza Bhutto.
Still we worship them like Human Gods. Look at Bilawal. How beautifully Bhutto is added to his name, just to cash. It's all in our front but a common Pakistani doesn't understand this.
"Shaheed Shaheed Shaheed, Meray Kan Pakk Gaye Hain sun sun kay". Now suicide of Shah Nawaz is another case of this phobia. Not many people know that he had already tried this style of death when his Turkish girlfriend had dumped him. His cause of death was that cyanide which was provided by Syrians. Benazir herself claimed in her book that he kept that tiny container with him. She even recalled him saying that he would kill himself with that. If it had any involvement of Zia and co then they couldn't leave evidence lying on a kitchen table.

Anyways I don't remember that there's a book in my shelves which has consumed this amount of my time, attention and my highlighter's ink equal to The Terrorist Prince. ☺️
This book is translated into this English draft though, still Raja Anwar like his Urdu books, has the ability to hold reader's eye.

There is a lot to reveal and write but I would like to advise the person who wants to read it, he should read this book with an open mind. I would like to quote something from the book,
The subcontinent's ruling classes always taken full advantage of the belief among the poor, starving masses of their countries, still slumbering in the caves of the past, that they are poor and rich are rich because such is the way the world has been fashioned by the creator. Their acceptance of this inequity is unquestioning and total. The psyche of a common man is reconciled to the idea that every person, every family is faded to plod on along the groove that it was born into. Change is not to be contemplated. For the people of subcontinent, therefore it's most natural to accept the son or daughter of the ruler as their next ruler. They take it as a settled social and natural reality that must not be resisted. This dynastic concept is do widely accepted, that there are families in subcontinent, whose members have sat with every elected or nominated chamber since British times by matter of unwritten right. They consider their constituency as their family seat, votes of it's people as purchased perpetuity by their ancestors.
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January 4, 2015
So, the Pakistani population is divided into two distinct political categories: You are either a Pro-Bhutto or an anti-Bhutto. Raja Anwar falls into the latter. Before you even start the book you come across an accusatory title “Terrorist”. Raja Anwar despicably labels Mir Murtaza Bhutto as a terrorist prince.

Anwar’s dubious claims on being the “die-hard” fan of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is a disrespect to the memory of Shaheed Bhutto. What I fail to understand is, if he pledged his alliance to People’s party and for some fabricated political falling (such as Murtaza Bhutto ordering the execution of the author..blah blah blah) he chose to leave the party then why did he start “exposing” the truth after he famously joined PML-N? Anwar suggests pathetically about Bhutto choosing the wrong man: “It is strange that a man of Bhutto’s wisdom and experience could consider Masood Mahmood, who became the main witness against him in the murder trial, as his friend and defender.” *cough* *cough* Yes! What about trusting the wrong man i.e. Anwar, who would eventually shame the leader with this atrocious book? Let’s not even start about loyalties!

In another equally derogatory remark he mentions in his “indexed notes” “Bhutto was lucky enough that he did not survive to see the outcome of his dream. A corrupt, incapable and superstitious Benazir government would have given him a heart attack.” Is there an element of jealousy? “He wanted his daughter, educated abroad, to become a symbol of progress, modernity and equal rights for the downtrodden women of Pakistan, and he had just appointed her his adviser on youth, an office I had held for several years.

He goes on accusing Shaheed Bhutto for his appeal to release the prisoners, “It was a quirk of history that the man who had vowed to fight India for a thousand years in 1965 was appealing to India six years later to release ninety thousand Pakistani POWs. The man who had denounced the Tashkent accord as humiliating had to travel to India in 1972 to sign the Simla Agreement.” Was he still not serving the People’s Party? If it was so “quirky” why not quit then and not wait for “dying in the prison” before leaving the People’s Party? He continues on this journey for one whole chapter: “..there was one great achievement that Bhutto could justly claim – the 1973 constitution…” and “…the biggest mistake made by PPP was that instead of ending feudalism, it went ahead with nationalization of industry and other sectors, handing over the control of these fledgling sectors to the bureaucracy….Once the PPP took power, the very elements which it had defeated began to fill its ranks…”

Zia’s regime had only one goal and that goal alone – to wipe the Bhutto family from the face of earth. Keeping that in mind, there is another version for the PIA hijack to release PPP prisoners - it was a façade (blamed on Al-Zulfikar). The PPP members in the jail were “pretended” to be released by torturing them to be a part of this full-fledged self-inflicted crises. I fail to understand, yet again, that when Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was overthrown, we believed, when the entire justice system was rigged, we believed, when half the world was appealing fruitlessly for his life, we believed, when democracy was falsely promised for more than a decade, we believed, we believed that America was behind Zia, we believed that the whole story revolved around the France negotiation, we believed when the PPP members were tried and tested but why do we fail to believe that if someone could kill democracy in one blow then why can’t that same power label Mir Murtaza Bhutto and Shah Nawaz Bhutto as terrorists? The male heirs of Zulfikar’s legend!

I cannot go on quoting the short falls of the entire book here. It is suffice to say that this book was written from the same pen which Piloo Mody wrote “Zulfi my friend” – with the ink of hatred.

0/5 stars. Because 0 is not practically possible at goodreads, I will give it 1/5. 1 for the cover photo of Mir Murtaza Bhutto!

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September 20, 2018
The Terrorist Prince by Raja Anwar is a memoir by an Ex-PPP worker translated in English by Khalid Hasan which attempts to tell the tale of Murtaza Bhutto in his years in exile (majorly) following the hanging of his father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Given the fact that it’s the narration of an Ex-party worker who had been thrown out of PPP/Al-Zulfikar for God knows what reasons (Raja Anwar hasn’t done a satisfactory job justifying his expulsion from the circles of Murtaza), one can assume a fiery opposition from Raja’s side. However, what is unprecedented is the spinning of tales of such degree that are ridiculous to take at their face value.
Raja Anwar has tried to make a strong case for Mir Murtaza for being a psychologically unstable person who is extremely scared of death and is suspicious of not just every passing individual, but of every member of Al-Zulfikar (for which it is claimed that the recruits of the organization were handpicked by Mir and Shahnawaz themselves in order to ensure secrecy and loyalty to the organization). In his terror and suspicion of poor recruits, Murtaza declares everyone a traitor after some time and gets them killed. However, what is most amusing is that, despite the author claiming himself to be the archenemy of Murtaza, Murtaza does not kill him (as does for many other recruits according to author), rather, hands him over to Afghan authorities, who also somehow do not kill him.
The excuse given by Raja Anwar for being expelled from Murtaza’s circles and subsequently from PPP is a very flimsy one and does not hold much weight. It goes on something like this: one day Murtaza woke up and had lost all this trust in me despite me being his faithful dog who had done his bidding for years, told lies for him and had not once confronted him for all the wrong and stupid things he had been doing but had rather supported him because well, he was my best friend and boss. For him, I even went to Pakistan to recruit future terrorists without opposing his idea, but since he has expelled me from his terrorist organization, I will spill all the beans and would spin such tales, the veracity of which would be hard to find.
And thus the origins of this book are laid out. Not only is Mir a feudal lord who thinks of himself as a superior being, but he’s also the murderer of Al-Zulfikar recruits, an insecure terrified psycho who is scared of death and an almost RAW agent who goes to live in India for two (or more) years to destabilize the state of Pakistan, just to avenge his father (of course not realizing that such a news would neither be leaked by Indian nor Pakistani media). In his spinning tales, Raja Anwar does not realize, were it the truth, the politicians, state, people and especially the media of both the countries would rip apart Murtaza Bhutto and his (although little) credibility.
While Raja Anwar leaves no stone unturned in discrediting Murtaza, there is an almost silence on Shahnawaz who was with Mir in every step of his fight. However, the only times Raja mentions Shah, are those of establishing him as an emotionally weak individual who is not the master of his own decisions, but rather, is working on Mir’s directives. The writer is also of view that Shahnawaz committed suicide in France because he could not handle the situation at home (providing no details whatsoever), contradictory to the popular narrative that it was a part of bigger conspiracy against the Bhuttos and PPP.
On a different but important note, what I found most pathetic about the author was his inherent racism ‘of being Punjabi’, which was basically the motivation behind not only his writing but also behind his hatred for the Bhuttos and his cynicism for their every action and alleging it to their hatred for Punjabis. For example, the allegations against Murtaza for killing the recruits of Al-Zulfikar are based on the premise that they were Punjabi and hence Murtaza did not trust them. He only trusted his Sindhi recruits. Raja goes on to ramble about Murtaza’s hatred for Punjabis somehow or the other, but it only proves his own racism because if Mir did not trust them, why recruit them in the first place? Secondly, it is interesting to notice that the two most loyal comrades of Murtaza among many others, Sohail Sethi and Ehsan Bhatti were non-Sindhi (rather Punjabi). However, Raja’s racism keeps making comical claims.
The writing of Raja is mostly incoherent and a lot of times contradicts his own statements so much so that one is bound to ask if it was even proofread before publishing. The storytelling is inconsistent and lacks a sequence, which I believe is mostly done on purpose in order to confuse readers from connecting the chain of events, because there isn’t any ‘chain of events’. There are only failed plans that never took place but are still penned down in detail by Raja and credited to Al-Zulfikar only to prove two points: one that Al-Zulfikar tried its best to wreak havoc in the world through its terrorist plans, two, it failed by its own stupid mistakes.
While as per other historians, a greater part of Mir’s life in exile after Afghanistan was spent in Libya, Raja hardly mentions in his stay in Libya and keeps on bringing his visits and stay in India. But at the same time, he’s careful not to mention the period or the dates of his stay because it’s not consistent with reality and could be double-checked and quickly dismissed.
Reading and finishing this book was an ordeal because of lack of consistency, coherence and self-contradictions but I’m still glad I picked it up and finished it because it helped me separate facts from exaggerations, and mostly because after reading Songs of Blood and Sword, I wanted to read another perspective which provided a more balanced view of life of Murtaza. Although Raja Anwar failed miserably to provide a factual account, the book (along with Songs of Blood and Sword) helped in forming my own perspective of Mir Murtaza Bhutto.
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July 4, 2013
As its name suggests, this book was written by a hypocrite raja anwar for the character assassnation of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, if you really want to waste your mony then you can read this book
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July 26, 2013
Although Fatima Bhutto, in defense of her father, called this book "based on hearsay" - which I don't deny - yet it is not a bad read.

This book is about Murtaza Bhutto's life and struggle against Zia regime after his father was incarcerated. Much of his struggle and the creation of Al-Zulfikar happened when Murtaza was in exile in Afghanistan. There, he met and married his first wife - the mother of Fatima Bhutto.

The author, a die-heart Bhutto follower, was also in exile with Murtaza. However, soon he had to part ways with Murtaza because differences on certain issues grew between them. Some of the incidents mentioned in the book and witnessed by the author are totally bone-chilling. It's a good reference book on domestic terrorism going on in the country during the Zia era and the attempts made on his life. Needless to say, the author linked most of those incidents with Al-Zulfikar.

This book deserves 3 stars in my opinion.
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February 21, 2021
The author of this book, Raja Anwar truly packs a punch. Incidentally, Anwar attracted notice in the late sixties as a student leader from Rawalpindi who was one of the first among the younger, progressive and politically motivated idealists to join Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who at the time
looked like the 'promised socialist messiah'.

This book furnishes a spellbinding description of the activities of Al-Zulfikar, the armed group formed by Murtazar Bhutto to even the score of the judicial killing of his father, Zulfikar Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan first deposed and then killed by General Zia al-Huq in 1977.

Al-Zulfikar was set up in 1981 and not to conclude wound up until the gunning down of Murtaza Bhutto in December 1996, though its period of greatest activity was the early and middle 1980s.

When reading Raja Anwar's often chilling account of the exploits of this terrorist group the general reader should bear in mind that the West itself during these years not only backed unspeakably oppressive governments like that of General Zia, but also supplied terroristic groups, such as those unleashed on Afghanistan, whose activities were to be vastly more disparaging than those of Al-Zulfikar.

Anwar divides this book into sixteen chapters:

1. The Fall of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
2 Al-Nusrat: The Campaign to Save Bhutto
3 The Human Torches
4 Kabul Hosts People's Liberation Army
5 Murtaza's Ragtag Army
6 The Indian Link
7 Pul-i-Charkhi
8 Drawing the Sword
9 The Hijack to Kabul
10 Flight to Damascus
11 Al-Zulfikar's Hit-List
12 Zia Escapes Al-Zulfikar Attack
13 A Killer for Murtaza
14 Forgotten Victims
15 Sindhi Ambitions and Laundered Reputations
16 One More Assassination

Take a moment to get your grip over the events.

Taken as a whole, the story of the Bhutto family and its followers is a Greek tragedy, which can be enumerated in six points:

1) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto declares for the people, is hoisted to power by a popular rebellion, misuses that power and is overthrown by a man he had thought of as his creature. He is hanged. His youngest son Shahnawaz Bhutto is poisoned in mysterious circumstances on the French Riviera.

2) The older son, Murtaza, sets up a terrorist group which often scales the pinnacles of absurdity, but also hijacks planes, obtains the release
of political prisoners and, as Anwar vividly relates, comes close on at least two occasions to assassinating the Pakistani military dictator.

3) The oldest child, Benazir, stays at home, is arrested many times, allowed out into exile, returns home, takes on the generals and is locked up again. Then Zia's plane is blown up by unknown assailants.

4) Following his death the generals permit the calling of elections. Benazir wins the elections and becomes Prime Minister. She is dismissed, out of power for a few years and then wins again. Murtaza returns home and quarrels publicly with his sister and her husband, Asif Zardari, who is accused of riotous corruption.

5) A sulphurous family feud ensues, ending with Murtaza being shot dead outside his home in Clifton, Karachi, by armed policemen.

6) His sister is the Prime Minister. She is distraught. Soon she is dismissed from power by one of her creatures, President F arooq Leghari, and her husband Asif Zardari is imprisoned.

The author has not exaggerating a tiny bit, when he declares in the preface: ‘The book that follows is a result of the opportunity that fell to me. I have written about the events as I saw them, without keeping anything back and without adding to the truth or taking anything away from it. This book has forced me to exhume a part of my life which I had managed to bury deep in my memory. Thus, once again, I have had to undergo the unbearably painful experience of my days in prison. I had begun to believe that I had forgotten them. I had not realized that they were burnt so indelibly into my soul.”

A must read for any avid follower of the South Asian history of dynastic politics.
5 reviews
February 22, 2026
What a truly enlightening read — if your goal is to witness breathtaking levels of contradiction.

Raja Anwar spends much of the book criticising the PPP, only to later join PML (N) — a party widely associated with corruption allegations, political patronage, establishment links, and often criticised for political violence and playing ethnic “Punjabi card” politics. So much for ideological purity. Watching someone preach principles and then abandon them so effortlessly is, in its own way, impressive.

The author also never misses an opportunity to present himself as the smartest person in every room, every meeting, and every moment in history. According to the narrative, he alone seems to possess political wisdom while everyone else simply fails to grasp his brilliance. One can’t help but wonder: if his insight was truly so extraordinary, why not form his own party and demonstrate it?

Overall, the book offers plenty of self-praise, very little self-awareness, and an abundance of contradictions. A fascinating exercise in ego — but not much else.
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November 13, 2017
one must read this book after reding SONGS OF BLOOD AND SWORD by FATIMA BHUTTO.It's very true that this book is biased to the last bit but after reading this one also gets the negative picture of this charming prince.
Besides everything written in this book, MIR will always be the best character of BHUTTO family.
People like raja anwar(written in small letters) cannot bring down men like MURTAZA BHUTTO.
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32 reviews37 followers
March 14, 2019
Totally a biased author,probably never written something, a cheap popularity.
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