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- Article Description Author, Waqar Mustafa Designation, Journalist, Researcher Publication Time 17 minutes ago Read Time: 13 minutes Independ.
- Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, a major landowner and politician of Sindh, left his young son Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to study in Bombay and take care of.
- Immediately after the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947, the Indian military attack on Junagadh is a different stor.
Article Description Author, Waqar Mustafa Designation, Journalist, Researcher Publication Time 17 minutes ago Read Time: 13 minutes Independence of the subcontinent was still seven or eight months away.
Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, a major landowner and politician of Sindh, left his young son Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to study in Bombay and take care of the vast family estate when he went with his wife and daughter to take up government duties in the princely state of Junagadh.
Immediately after the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947, the Indian military attack on Junagadh is a different story. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who later became a minister, president and prime minister of Pakistan, was abroad for higher education when the Indian government seized his property in Bombay as 'abandoned' (i.e., left after the owner moved to Pakistan).
How Bhutto fought a legal battle in India for the next nine years to reclaim this property, declared himself a 'citizen of India', how he got it back in Pakistan, and how his opponents made political use of his claim of Indian citizenship many times in the following decades, this is the story in our story today.
Stanley Wolpert, in his biography of Bhutto, Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan: His Life and Times, writes that after his parents moved to Junagadh, Zulfikar stayed at his house, The Nest, on Carmichael Road in Bombay.
