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The Terrorist Prince - The Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto (Hardcover)
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The Terrorist Prince - The Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto (Hardcover)
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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.
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