Monday, 4 April 2011

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

He Born on 5 January 1928

His mother name Khursheed Begum  Lakhi Bai and father was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto
He Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States and University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, 

Bhutto married his second wife, the Iranian-Kurdish Begum Nusrat Ispahani who was a Shi'a Muslim in Karachi on 8 September 1951. Their first child, his daughter Benazir was born in 1953. She was followed by Murtaza in 1954, a second daughter, Sanamin 1957, and the youngest child, Shahnawaz Bhutto, in 1958

He was a Pakistani politician who served As the fourth 4th President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973
And  as the 9th  Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. 

He was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)

 His daughter Benazir Bhutto also served twice as prime minister. She was assassinated on 27 December 2007.

He is known as Father of Nuclear Programme. 


In 1962, he was appointed Pakistan's foreign minister.

Bhutto joined Ayub in Tashkent to negotiate a peace treaty with the Indian  Prime
Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. Ayub and Shastri agreed to exchange prisoners of war and withdraw respective forces to pre-war boundaries. Bhutto resigned in June 1966 and expressed strong opposition to Ayub's regime

He was executed in 1979 after the Supreme Court of Pakistan sentenced him to death for authorizing the murder of a political opponent in a move that many believe was done under the directives of General Muhammad ZIA-UL-HAQ

He Died on  4 April 1979

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