If I Am Assassinated
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From his death cell in Rawalpindi, ousted Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto wrote his final testament. Under trial for authorizing the murder of a political opponent, Bhutto writes a scathing denunciation of military dictatorship, rebuts the allegations against his government made in General Zia-ul-Haq's White Paper, and hints at his greatest achievement: the then-covert founding of Pakistan's nuclear programme.
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Bhutto predicts that, should his murder be permitted, the rivers of the Indus Valley will turn red with blood. Smuggled out of prison and published in neighbouring India, If I Am Assassinatedcontinues to be the most controversial piece of political literature to have been written in Pakistan.
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