Zulfikar
Ali Bhutto ( 5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was a Great Leader and 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 27 December
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 authorising the murder of a political opponent, in a move that
many believe was done under the directives of General Muhammad
Zia-ul-Haq. On his return to Pakistan, Bhutto started practicing Law at
Dingomal's. In 1958, he joined President Iskander Mirza's Cabinet as
Commerce Minister. He was the youngest Minister in Ayub Khans Cabinet.
In 1963, he took over the post of Foreign Minister from Muhammad Ali
Bogra.
