On April 4, 1979, Bhutto was hanged at Central Jail in Rawalpindi on murder charges
KARACHI – The 45th death anniversary of People’s Party founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is being observed today .
On April 4, 1979, Bhutto was hanged at Central Jail in Rawalpindi after Gen Ziaul Haq upheld the death sentence on murder charges. He was reportedly tortured in, leading to vomiting and severe chest pain. He was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in Sindh. Zulfikar Bhutto, who gave the first unanimous constitution to Pakistan, was born in Larkana, Sindh, on January 5, 1928. His father Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto wasHe received his higher education from the University of Southern California and Oxford and took up law as a profession but later joined politics. He became a member of Sikandar Mirza's cabinet and the foreign minister under Gen Ayub Khan.
He parted ways with Gen Ayub and founded the Pakistan People's Party in 1967. He gained popularity among the masses in a short span of time and won their confidence. He raised slogan of and swept the 1970 general elections in West Pakistan, as it was known then. He gave first unanimous constitution to Pakistan in 1973, enacted land reforms and labour laws, implemented a series of reforms in the industrial sector, started nuclear programme, and set up Pakistan Steel Mills with the assistance of erstwhile Soviet Union.Recently, Bhutto was declared innocent by the Supreme Court on a presidential reference. Meanwhile, the Sindh government announced a public holiday on the occasion of his death anniversary.
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