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  Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali - MSN Encarta
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928-1979), president and prime minister of Pakistan from 1971 to 1977.
Bhutto attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1949 and received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.
Bhutto insisted that the allegations were false, but the high court in Lahore, packed with Zia's supporters, convicted Bhutto and imposed the death sentence.
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 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Summary
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was born on January 5, 1928, in Larkana, a small town in the province of Sind.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto an influential Sindhi landlord and the Dewan (minister) of Junagadh state.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto served as President from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister, from 1973 to 1977.
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 BHUTTO, Zulfikar Ali
After the secession of Bangladesh and the resultant war with India in 1971, Bhutto emerged as president of the truncated country and was generally credited with returning it to relative stability.
Bhutto was subsequently tried under martial law and found guilty of ordering the murder of a political opponent, a charge he denounced as a frameup; despite international opposition, he was hanged on Apr. 4, 1979.
Benazir Bhutto then became leader of the PPP, and she eventually served twice as prime minister.
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 Zulfikar Ali Butto
Bhutto served in the position of President (from 1971 to 1973) and as Prime Minister, from 1973 to 1977, of Pakistan.
Bhutto was released 10 days after his arrest after a judge Justice KMA Samadani found the evidence "contradictory and incomplete." Justice Samadani had to pay for this; he was immediately removed form the court and placed at the disposal of law ministry.
Bhutto managed to bring all the political parties: Jamat-e-Islami, JUI and JUP, who demanded an Islamic State; and the Wali Khan led National Awami Party, which was the major party in the Frontier and Balochistan, calling for autonomy, to agree to a consensus on the new Constitution and permanently resolving all the three issues.
www.pakservice.com /People/zulfikar_ali_bhutto.htm   (3267 words)

  
 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - Encyclopedia.com
Bhutto's refusal to meet Mujibur's demands for East Pakistan's autonomy or for participation in the government led to the (1971) civil war and Indian intervention.
Bhutto was reelected in 1977, but was overthrown in a coup by General Zia ul-Haq.
Bhutto's father was former Pakistani Premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Bhutto-Z.html   (911 words)

  
 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - Biography Source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 - April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as prime minister of Pakistan from 1973 - 1977.
Bhutto was born in Larkana, Pakistan the only son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is alive in the hearts of the people of Pakistan and its true that he was hanged because he was big hradle for Americans in the region and a false case was established by a barbarian fundamentalist military dictator Gen Zia.
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 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zulfiqar/Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Urdu: ذوالفقار علی بھٹو, Sindhi: ذوالفقار علي ڀُٽو) (January 5, 1928 – April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as President from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister, from 1973 to 1977.
Bhutto was born in Larkana as the son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto.
Bhutto is regarded by many Pakistanis and others as being instrumental in the separation of east Pakistan, due to his and the military's refusal to allow Mujibur Rahman, the Awami league leader - the democratically elected leader of Pakistan - to become head of government.
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 The Most Comprehensive Reference on the Political History of Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was born on January 5, 1928.
Before his birth he had two brothers: The first one Sikandar whom Z. Bhutto never saw as he fell victim to Pneumonia when he was only seven in 1914 and the second one Imdad Ali who also died of Cirrhosis of the lever at the age of 39 in 1953.
Ghulam Ishaq Khan was born on January 20, 1915 in Ismail Khel, Bannu district of NWFP.
www.storyofpakistan.com   (329 words)

  
 Pakistan Peoples Party: Official web site. design and hosting service. A gift for Pakistan.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto believed in a Foreign Policy of bilateralism in which no state would be entitled to interfere in Pakistan's relations with other states.
Bhutto's finest hour came in the reconstruction of Pakistan after the traumatic dismemberment of Pakistan upon the fall of Dhaka on 16th December, 1971.
Bhutto's foundation of the PPP was a setback for the reactionary forces in a country long dominated by the Right.
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 Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Bhutto joined the cabinet in 1958, becoming foreign minister in 1963.
Bhutto’s refusal to meet Mujibur’s demands for East Pakistan’s autonomy or for participation in the government led to the (1971) civil war and Indian intervention.
Bhutto was reelected in 1977, but was overthrown in a coup by General Zia ul-Haq.
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 Leaders: South Asia : Hindustan Times.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was buried in his ancestral village, at Garhi Khuda Baksh next to his father's grave.
Benazir Bhutto, the eldest child of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953 in Karachi.
Benazir Bhutto was nominated as the Prime Minister on December 1, 1988 and Gulam Ishaq Khan was nominated the President of Pakistan.
www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Aug/07/7598_1155915,001600840000.htm   (2828 words)

  
 History of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto
Zulfikar Bhutto's government had mass support and was a democratic regime that worked for down trodden and have-nots.
Bhutto's persecution began in earnest after the dismissal of her father's government in 1977 and his execution in 1979 as she intensified her denunciations of Zia and sought to organize a political movement against him.
Bhutto's stirring oratory, familiar name, and striking appearance helped give her a strong mass appeal, but she had to struggle to wrest real power from the PPP's old-guard leadership, members of which were wary of her gender, youth, and political wisdom.
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 Pakistan: Populism, revolution and counter-revolution
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a minister, for industries and national resources, and later foreign minister, in the brutal military dictatorship of General Ayub Khan in the 1960s.
Bhutto’s programme of “food, clothing and shelter” was backed by his supporters, who promised “paradise” to the poor peasants and workers.
Bhutto himself was extremely radical in his speeches, although the PPP itself consisted of an unholy alliance of landlords, racketeers, lawyers, petty bourgeois jumping on the bandwagon, as well as significant sections of the working class and poor.
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 - April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as President, from 1971 to 1973, and as Prime Minister, from 1973 to 1977, of Pakistan.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a world-class leader and is still considered as a true legend in Pakistani politics.
For Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Pakistani Prime Minister who was executed in 1979, it was a grim homecoming.
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 BBC World Service - Women in Power
From the age of 9, Bhutto was groomed by her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, for political office in Pakistan.
Benazir Bhutto became the focus for his followers and, from jail, he continued to advise her what to say to the crowds.
In 1996 Bhutto's husband was jailed for corruption and accused of murdering her brother.
www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/people/features/wiwp/dyncon/bhutto.shtml   (1511 words)

  
 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Biography (1928–79) Online Encyclopedia Article About Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Biography (1928–79)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Biography (1928–79) Online Encyclopedia Article About Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Biography (1928–79)
The military leader, General Zia ul-Haq, instituted proceedings against corruption, under which Bhutto was convicted of conspiring to murder and was sentenced to death in 1978.
In spite of worldwide protest and appeals for clemency, the sentence was carried out.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/095/Zulfikar-Ali-Bhutto.html   (199 words)

  
 Pakistan Chronology - Pakistan Azadi Website
Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan loses power July 3 as his army chief of staff ousts the civilian government and imposes martial law, dissolving the national and state assemblies and banning all political parties.
Pakistan’s former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 51, is hanged April 4 at Rawalpindi for plotting the murder of a political opponent in 1974.
Benazir Bhutto, 35, whose father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was executed by Zia in 1979, is elected prime minister in December and becomes the first woman to head a Muslim state.
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 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
She said that when the ambitious dictators brought defeat to the nation in 1971, it was Quaid e Awam who pieced together the country with his sweat, toil and blood.
She said that the OIC summit of 1974 at Lahore as a crowning achievement of Shaheed Bhutto where Yassir Arafat was recognized as the authentic voice of the Palestinian people.
Zulfikar Ali Bhuto established Azad Kashmir as an autonomous area with its own President, Prime Minister and Judiciary and gave Balauchistan Provincial status.
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 Raja Anwar: The terrorist prince
Bhutto came to power in December 1971 and promoted him to his advisor on student and labour affairs in 1974, the youth portfolio, however, was transferred to Benazir Bhutto, two and a half days before Bhutto was ousted in 1977 (p.
After Bhutto was sentenced to death under dubious circumstances, party activists tried to mobilize public support, by courting arrest and, finally, by self-immolation in public places.
Few people of the initial phase of Al-Murtaza survived, so we have to be grateful that he wrote his account; of the later years he is one who knew many of the actors, and obviously spoke to some of them and to some of their relations.
www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de /abt/intwep/zingel/anwar97.htm   (701 words)

  
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Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was born on January 5, 1928.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto married Nusrat Isphahani on September 8, 1951.
He was called to Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1953, and the same year his first child, Benazir Bhutto, was born on June 21.
www.storyofpakistan.com /person.asp?perid=P019   (264 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1979: Execution of a prime minister
Bhutto was an excellent leader who connected well with people of all classes.
Mr Bhutto's death was a big relief to my family as my uncle who was in his mid 20s was a victim of Mr Bhutto.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto giving fiery speeches and then suddenly in few months of time I remember his government being taken over by Ziaulhaq, a military general, his most trusted.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/witness/april/4/newsid_4412000/4412729.stm   (1088 words)

  
 Benazir Bhutto: Leader With a Headstart
Democracy descended into the deep freeze when Bhutto, a fiery left-wing populist who had emerged from the landed gentry of Sind province, was accused by the new military government of complicity in a provincial assassination plot which had led to the death of the intended victim's father.
When he tentatively set a date for elections just after the scheduled birth of Benazir Bhutto's child, he seemed to be changing the rules just to thwart her ambitions.
That is in her favor at home, where educated Muslims are at pains to explain, and demonstrate through their support, that where Muslim women do not enjoy equal rights with men, it is not because the Quran, the Holy book of Islam, or the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad would have it so.
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 NTI: Country Overviews: PAkistan: Nuclear Chronology
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto holds a meeting with senior Pakistani nuclear scientists to discuss the possibility of embarking on a nuclear weapons program.
Bhutto endorses the idea and promises that his government will spare "no facilities and finances" for a weapons program.
Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto says that India's nuclear program is designed to intimidate Pakistan and establish "hegemony in the subcontinent"; and Pakistan will develop a nuclear program in response to India's nuclear testing of an atomic device.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Pakistan/Nuclear/5593_5596.html   (2164 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: PAkistan: Nuclear Chronology
Butt was one of the scientists who attended the January 1972 meeting that Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto called to discuss the possibility of Pakistan developing a nuclear bomb.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto meets with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and refuses to accept Canada’s directions on the use of the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant that Pakistan is planning to buy from France.
Bhutto contends that Pakistan is not interested in acquiring nuclear explosives.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Pakistan/Nuclear/5593_5639.html   (3074 words)

  
 TIME.com: Bhutto: Embattled but Unbowed -- Dec. 29, 1975 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bhutto did not resign, but the rising tide of bitterness signaled the end of an era of good will that had accompanied his takeover of power after Pakistan's defeat in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.
Bhutto tried to repair the damage wrought by his predecessor, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, whose brutal excesses in East Pakistan forced the province to break away and form the nation of Bangladesh.
When his provincial cabinet minister for the Northwest Frontier province was murdered last February, Bhutto banned the National Awami Party—the principal party in the province—and arrested 300 of its leaders, including Khan Abdul Wali Khan, the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly.
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