Mr. Abdul Hafiz Kardar, Member-elect of the Punjab Assembly and a former Pakistan cricket captain, has urged the government to instruct the Pakistan Hockey Federation not to invite India to the World Cup Hockey Tournament being held here (Lahore) in February.
He was speaking at a reception hosted by the sportsmen of Punjab at the Y.M.C.A. Hall. Mr. Kardar said that confrontation with India at all levels was a major foreign policy plank in the manifesto of the Pakistan People’s Party, and the visit of the India team to Pakistan would militate against the people’s mandate to his party in the recent elections.
(Morning News, Dacca. Dec, 30, 1970.)
After having talks for a few minutes with the hijackers (who had hijacked the Indian Airlines plane to Lahore), Mr. Bhutto said, ‘We are with you’.
(Pakistan Times, Lahore, Feb 1 1971.)
Mohammad Ashraf, one of the two hijackers, told newsmen who went to Lahore airport that the Pakistan People’s Chairman, Mr. Z.A. Bhutto, had advised them to leave everything to him.
Mr. Bhutto had gone to see the hijackers immediately after his return from Dacca.
(Pakistan Observer, Feb, 1 1971.)
In an airport interview, Mr. Bhutto said he had instructed his party men in Lahore to establish contact with the Jammu and Kashmir national Liberation front (propped up by Pakistan) in order to assist the two brave hijackers in every possible way. Mr. Bhutto praised the velour of the two youthful hijackers.
(Dawn, Karachi, Feb, 4, 1971)
The Awami League Chief, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, deplored the blowing up of the hijacked Indian plane at Lahore and urged the government to hold an enquiry into the matter and to take effective measures to prevent interested quarters from exploiting this situation for her nefarious ends.
(Morning News, Dacca. Feb, 4, 1971.)
I have prepared a list of all those journalists who have tried to malign my party (during the elections) and all of them will be fixed up.
(Mr. Z.A. Bhutto. reported in Pakistan Times, Lahore, dec. 21. 1970.)
The Pakistan People’s Party had won majority in Provincial Assemblies of Punjab and Sindh. The real power of the Centre lay in these two Provinces, No government at the Centre, therefore, could be run without the PPP’s cooperation?
(Mr. Z..A. Bhutto. reported in Pakistan Times, Lahore, dec. 21, 1970.)
