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In office
14 August 1973 – 5 July 1977
President of Pakistan
In office
20 December 1971 – 13 August 1973
In office
20 December 1971 – 28 March 1977
In office
15 June 1963 – 12 September 1966
5 January 1928(1928-01-05)
Born
Larkana, British Raj (now Pakistan)
Religion Muslim-Shia[1][2][3]
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Sindhi: ذوالفقار علي ُڀٽو, IPA: [zʊlfɪqɑːɾ ɑli bʱʊʈːoː]) (January 5, 1928–
April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the fourth President of Pakistan from
1971 to 1973 and as the ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. He was the founder
of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the largest and most influential political party in Pakistan.
His daughter Benazir Bhutto also served twice as prime minister; she was assassinated on
December 27, 2007.
Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States and University of Oxford
in the United Kingdom, Bhutto was noted for his economic initiatives and authoring Pakistan's
nuclear programme. He was executed in 1979 after the Supreme Court of Pakistan sentenced him
to death for authorizing the murder of a political opponent,[4][5] in a move that many believe was
done under the directives of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.[6][7]
Contents
• 1 Early life
• 2 Political career
○ 2.1 Foreign Minister
• 3 Pakistan Peoples Party
• 4 Leader of Pakistan
○ 4.1 President of Pakistan
○ 4.2 Father of the Nuclear program
○ 4.3 Ordering military operation in Balochistan
○ 4.4 Prime Minister of Pakistan
○ 4.5 Popular unrest and military coup
○ 4.6 Trial of the Prime Minister
• 5 Re-arrest and trial
• 6 Death sentence and appeal
• 7 Criticism and legacy
• 8 Works
• 9 Books on Bhutto
• 10 See also
• 11 References
• 12 External links
Early life
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was born to Khursheed Begum née Lakhi Bai and Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto.
He was born in a prominent Sindhi Shia Muslim Arain family.[8] Bhutto's father was a prominent
political figure in the Indian colonial government. Bhutto was born in his parent's residence near
Larkana in what later became the province of Sindh. He was their third child — their first one,
Sikandar Ali, died from pneumonia at age seven in 1914 and the second child, Imdad Ali, died of
cirrhosis at the age of 39 in 1953.[9] His father was a wealthy landlord, a zamindar, and a
prominent politician in Sindh, who enjoyed an influential relationship with the officials of the
British Raj. As a young boy, Bhutto moved to Worli Seaface in Bombay (now Mumbai) to study
at the Cathedral and John Connon School. During this period, he also became a student activist
in the League's Pakistan Movement. In 1943, his marriage was arranged with Shireen Amir
Begum (died January 19, 2003 in Karachi). He later left her, however, in order to remarry. In
1947, Bhutto was admitted to the University of Southern California.
During this time, Bhutto's father, Sir Shahnawaz, played a controversial role in the affairs of the
state of Junagadh (now in Gujarat). Coming to power in a palace coup as the dewan, he secured
the accession of the state to Pakistan, which was ultimately negated by Indian intervention in
December, 1947.[10] In 1949, Bhutto transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where
he earned an honours degree in political science. Here he would become interested in the theories
of socialism, delivering a series of lectures on the feasibility of socialism in Islamic countries. In
June, 1950 Bhutto travelled to England to study law at Christ Church, Oxford. Upon finishing his
studies, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1953 (the same school at which Muhammad
Ali Jinnah studied law) .
Bhutto married his second wife, the Iranian-Kurdish Begum Nusrat Ispahani who was also a
Shi'a Muslim,[2] in Karachi on September 8, 1951. Their first child, his daughter Benazir, was
born in 1953. She was followed by Murtaza in 1954, a second daughter, Sanam, in 1957, and the
youngest child, Shahnawaz Bhutto, in 1958. He accepted the post of lecturer at the Sindh Muslim
College, from where he was also awarded an honorary law degree by the then college President,
Mr. Hassanally A. Rahman before establishing himself in a legal practice in Karachi. He also
took over the management of his family's estate and business interests after his father's death.
Political career
In 1957, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became the youngest member of Pakistan's delegation to the United
Nations. He would address the United Nations Sixth Committee on Aggression on October 25,
1957 and lead Pakistan's deputation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Seas in
1958. In the same year, Bhutto became the youngest Pakistani cabinet minister when he was
given charge of the energy ministry by President Muhammad Ayub Khan, who had seized power
and declared martial law. He was subsequently promoted to head the ministries of commerce,
information and industries. Bhutto became a close and trusted advisor to Ayub, rising in
influence and power despite his youth and relative inexperience in politics. Bhutto aided Ayub in
negotiating the Indus Water Treaty with India in 1960. In 1961, Bhutto negotiated an oil
exploration agreement with the Soviet Union, which also agreed to provide economic and
technical aid to Pakistan.
Foreign Minister
Leader of Pakistan
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Political offices
Presidents of Pakistan
L.A. Khan · K. Nazimuddin · M.A. Bogra · C.M. Ali · H.S. Suhrawardy · I.I. Chundrigar · F.K.
Noon · N. Amin · Z.A. Bhutto · M.K. Junejo · B. Bhutto · G.M. Jatoi · N. Sharif · B.S. Mazari
(Caretaker) · N. Sharif · M.A. Qureshi (Caretaker) · B. Bhutto · M.M. Khalid (Caretaker) · N. Sharif ·
Z.K. Jamali · C.S. Hussain · S. Aziz · M.M. Soomro (Caretaker) · Y.R. Gillani
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