The Leopard and the Fox: A Pakistani Tragedy

by Tariq Ali

Book Overview

The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected prime minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarchy--under pressure from the Foreign Office--decided to cancel the project. Why? General Zia ul Haq, the dictator at the time, was leading the jihad against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He was backed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905422296
• ISBN13: 9781905422296
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A must for the pages of history!

Amazing book!. Stretched over more than a 100 short scenes of screenplay the books tells the 'behind-the-scenes' tale of the Bhutto-Zia face-off between 1977-1979 in Pakistan. The book as it seems is very close to what one would expect to have actually happened behind close doors. None-the-less, it's one of those stories which will be read for decades to come to revisit the life of the fist democratic Prime Minister of Pakistan. Zia is irrelevant.

A Master Piece

I have a friend who, somehow, justified dictatorship in Pakistan. After reading this book, he admitted that he did not know enough to make that claim. This is very-well written book.