Benazir Bhutto opposed nuclear race in South Asia: B.A. Malik

“We want a peace dividend, not the nuclear race in South Asia and that is what all of us should be working for”(Benazir Bhutto in her address at Prince University New York ,USA 9 April 1995).Daughter of the East, the two time woman Prime Minister in the Muslim world, a fearless campaigner for democracy, human rights and regional peace and a martyr for welfare of the oppressed people, Benazir Bhutto has become a legend and a role model in the hearts and minds of millions in her own country and around the world, said political analyst and former ambassador B.A. Malik in a statement issued here on the eve of Benazir Bhutto’s birthday.


Educated in the West and fondly tutored by her great father in the art of peace and diplomacy BB took the baton from her illustrious father in 1977 when a treacherous military ruler abrogated the constitution and dismissed the first directly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. Even earlier at the tender age of 19 she had accompanied and chaperoned Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at Simla Peace Conference in 1972 following the December/71 Indo Pakistan war.

Whenever she had tried to promote peace in South Asia she was dubbed as a national security risk by the powerful establishment. Benazir Bhutto was so persistent in her quest for peace and security in South Asia that Pakistan Peoples Party under her inspiring leadership made peaceful coexistence in our troubled region a corner stone of our foreign policy without compromising our principled stand on core issues i ncluding water and Kashmir.

The 2008 Manifesto of PPP accordingly envisaged South Asia as a region of peace, tranquility, harmony and prosperity, the statement said.