"My cardinal error was that, I trusted persons whom I knew, and helped, for twenty years; I regarded them as reliable and trustworthy friends."
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On the letter to the editor of The Times sent on 13 September 1967, quoted in Iskander Mirza Speaks: Speeches, Statements and Private Papers (1997), compiled and edited by Ahmad Salim, Gora Publishers. Excerpted from the official website of Khurram Ali Shafique
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Iskander Mirza
(13 November 189913 November 1969) was a Bengali politician, statesman and military general who served as the 's fourth and last from 1955 to 1956, and then as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's first president from 1956 to 1958.
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