Dr Farid Malik in his column (The Nation September 13) writes, "Bhutto left Ayub government after the Tashkent debacle". May I quote Rafi Raza who writes in his book on Bhutto that when the Pakistan delegation appeared to be returning empty handed from the Simla Conference, he suggested to Bhutto to reveal the Tashkent secret to divert public opinion. Bhutto said, "There is nothing to tell". It is common knowledge that Bhutto used the Tashkent Declaration as an excuse to launch his opposition movement against Ayub Khan. Some even say he engineered the 1956 war to stop Ayub Khan's, and hence the country's, march towards prosperity so that he could play his own politics. It is a pity that educated people keep putting forward false arguments in their blind support for a man who had more vices than virtues. Please read what the two people closest to Bhutto have to say about him; Dr Mubashar Hasan's 'The mirage of power' and Rafi Raza's 'Bhutto and Pakistan'. -KHURSHID ANWER, Lahore, via e-mail, September 17.