At the eve of the final day, Sikandar Mirza, the then-Deputy Commissioner of district Mardan, was the chief guest at the Annual Award Ceremony.
After the coup of Ayub Khan, political parties were banned and the NAP faced a harsh crackdown from the pro-USA government.
Hasan Nasir, the NAP office secretary, also a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, was tortured to death in custody.
In 1964 Ayub Khan conducted elections in Pakistan on the basis of his own hand-made rule known as Basic Democracy System in which there was no concept of one man, one vote.
But this man of honour refused to budge in spite of the fact that he knew very well that his chances of winning the election against Nawabzada Abdul Ghafoor Khan Hoti are minimal.
[5][6] In 1967, after the fall of Field Martial Muhammad Ayub Khan there was a long spell of Political Activism and popular agitation, culminating in general elections of 1970.
The Establishment decided to crush this popular agitation and a brutal ARMY action was started that resulted in the separation of East Pakistan which became an independent country (Bangladesh).
Despite the initial positive start, the agreement rapidly began to unravel due to the growing animosity between Abdul Wali Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
He and his other followers and leaders of National Awami Party were steadfast against the dictatorial and undemocratic regime of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
[11][12] In 1974, after Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's close ally and governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Hayat Sherpao was killed in a bomb blast at Peshawar University.
[13] On 8 February 1975, whilst addressing the students, Hayat Mohammed Khan Sherpao, senior minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and president of the provincial PPP, was blown up by a bomb and killed.
Another Prime Minister Bhutto, Zulfikar that time, stopped doing what he was doing in New York City that day, boarded the plane, flew back, and wept at Sherpao's grave.
Barrister Azizullah Shaikh, chief of the National Awami Party in Karachi, who was in Hyderabad, managed to remain out of reach.
Friend moved Sardar Sherbaz Mazari in with his own armed bodyguards and stayed overnight to protect Azizullahs family.
On the same day government agents raided and ransacked the offices of Asghar Khan's Newspaper Daily Tehrik-i-Istiqlal and of the Jamaat.
On 14 February, the champion of liberty, Minister for Provincial Co- ordination Hafiz Pirzada declared that the administrative action taken by the government in dissolving the National Awami Party was not arbitrary or out of rancour and acrimony it was strictly in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution.
I now quote from Bhuttos biographer, Stanley Wolpert, the first man allowed access to the archives of the great leader at 70 Clifton.
[14][15] In addition, Prime Minister Bhutto warned the judges that the "responsibility of the consequence will be of the Supreme Court" should they reject his reference against NAP.
Whilst addressing the students, Hayat Mohammed Khan Sherpao, senior minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and president of the provincial PPP, was blown up by a bomb and killed.
Another Prime Minister Bhutto, Zulfikar that time, stopped doing what he was doing in New York that day, boarded the plane, flew back, and wept at Sherpaos grave.
Barrister Azizullah Shaikh, chief of the National Awami Party in Karachi, who was in Hyderabad, managed to remain out of reach.
Friend Sardar Sherbaz Mazari moved in with his own armed bodyguards and stayed overnight to protect Azizullahs family.
On 14 February, the champion of liberty, Minister for Provincial co-ordination Abdul Hafiz Pirzada declared that the administrative action taken by the government in dissolving the National Awami Party was not arbitrary or out of rancour and acrimony it was strictly in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution.
I now quote from Bhuttos biographer, Stanley Wolpert, the first man allowed access to the archives of the great leader at 70 Clifton.
Zulfi felt as certain that Abdul Wali Khan was the man responsible for Sherpao's death as Ahmed Raza was certain about who killed his father.
A special tribunal was set up on the orders of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Central Jail of Hyderabad (Sindh).The National Awami Party, which the government banned on 10 February 1975.
Claims of widespread rigging by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the elections for the National Assembly of Pakistan eventually surfaced.
In protest, the combined opposition decided to boycott the elections for Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan to be held three days later.
The 3rd amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan was passed which gave wide legal scope to the state to define anti-state activities.