Hyder Bux Jatoi
Pakistani politician and peasant leader
Hyder Bux Jatoi Hyder Bux Jatoi (Sindhi: حيدر بخش جتوئي; Urdu: حيدر بخش جتوئی), 7 October 1901 – 21 May 1970) was a revolutionary, leftist, peasant leader in Sindh, Pakistan. He is known as "Baba-e-Sindh" (Father of Sindh).
Quotes edit
- We shall carry on our campaign against this "Zulm" (cruelty).
- 1969, March: quoted in Restore full Provincial autonomy to Sindh, Balochistan, Pashtoonistan, Six Sindh MNA's Table Draft Bill, also quoted in Hyder Bakhsh Jatoi, 1901-1970: Introduction and excerpts from his Writing, p. 254
Quotes from Letters edit
Baba-e-Sindh Hyder Bakhsh Jatoi, 1901-1970: Introduction and excerpts from his Writing edit
- It requires worth fully to appreciate a man of worth.
- p. 266
- There is only one person that can be "more than a father", it is your dear mother, whose love for her offspring is unbounded by heaven and earth.
- p. 266
- Time never returns once lost.
- p. 266
- All of you please avoid smoking, drinking habits as venomous things. By keeping away from them you will be happy and healthy.
- p. 266
- In the Jail, there is a Government supplied radio, and I hear music and news occasionally. My time, however, passes in my pastime; I live by myself, alone.
- p. 266
- I hope you must be enjoying to receive a letter from me. I may tell you that I enjoy to receive your letter ten times more. In prison life, a letter from dear ones is a great luxury.
- p. 266
- I have done nothing but my duty, and which I shall be doing so long as there is life in me.
- p. 267
- Everyone has to follow the road (to death)!
- p. 267
See also edit
- Hyder Bakhsh Jatoi: Restore full Provincial autonomy to Sindh, Balochistan, Pashtoonistan, Six Sindh MNA's Table Draft Bill, Printed at Capital Press, Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan, March 1969
- Dr. Hatim Jatoi: Baba-e-Sindh Hyder Bakhsh Jatoi, 1901-1970: Introduction and excerpts from his Writing, Printed at Hyder Mehfil, Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan, 1995
