Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1969, an nada Sattar a matsayin Babban Kwamishinan Zabe na Pakistan. Ya shirya babban zaben farko na Pakistan a shekarar 1970, inda kungiyar Awami ta sami rinjaye na majalisa don kafa gwamnati. Ƙungiyar ta hana mika mulki ta hannun rundunar sojan da Janar Yahya Khan ke jagoranta. Yayin da yakin neman 'yancin Bangladesh ya barke da kisan kare dangi
Sattar ya makale a Islamabad, Yammacin Pakistan, an cire shi daga mukamai na hukuma kuma gwamnatin Pakistan ta tsare shi. A cikin 1973, Sattar ya koma Bangladesh mai zaman kanta a matsayin wani ɓangare na maido da jami'an Bengal da suka makale. Ya ji daɗin haɓaka a cikin Dhaka, amma ya yi rayuwa mai natsuwa tare da matarsa kuma ba shi da yara.