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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ( Urdu:,, ) ( 5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979 ) was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977, and prior to that as the 4th President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973.
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* 1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
* 1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore's dry port.
* 1971 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan.
The cabinet included among the eight civilians, one of them being Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former Karachi University lecturer.
The senior high command officers in Pakistan Armed Forces, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former Karachi University professor of political science, began to pressure General Yahya Khan to take armed action against Mujib and his party.
Mujib returned to free Bangladesh on 10 January 1972 by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
* 1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 1977 under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, until he was deposed by General Zia-ul-Haq, who became the country's third military president.
With the death of Zia-ul-Haq in 1988, Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.
The ceasefire line came into effect on January 1, 1949, after eighteen months of fighting between Indian forces and Afridi tribals which Pakistan had sent to occupy Kashmir and was last adjusted and agreed upon by the two countries according to the Simla Agreement of July 2, 1972 between Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Sharif was placed in Adiala Jail, infamous for hosting Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's trial, and his leading defense lawyer, Iqbal Raad, was shot dead in Karachi in mid-March.
Sources from Pakistan claimed that Musharraf and his military government's officers were in full mood to exercise tough conditions on Sharif, was intended to sent Navaz Sharif to gallows to face similar fate as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979.
Pakistan allowed the free sale and consumption of alcohol for three decades from 1947, but restrictions were introduced by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto just weeks before he was removed as prime minister in 1977.
He was one of the atomic scientists who attended the famous Multan meeting in 1972 where he has privileged to meet personally with Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
In 2009, Mahmood described Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ( 1928-1979 ) in a public television:
Pakistan's Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto vowed in June 1974 that he would never succumb to " nuclear blackmail " or accept " Indian hegemony or domination over the subcontinent ".< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.
Problems with India continued with West when in 1965, Foreign minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Defence minister Vice-Admiral Afzal Rahman Khan approached to President Ayub Khan for the approval of the covert-back operation, codename Operation Gibraltar.
Problems further mounted after deposing of Foreign minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by Ayub Khan.
The democratic socialist leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, allied with left-wing parties, participated in General elections held in December 1970 saw the far left Awami League under Mujibur Rahman win an overall majority of seats in parliament ( all but two of the 162 seats allocated to East Pakistan ).
With the growing influence of leftists and democratic socialists, under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and amid growing public pressure and wide public disapproval of his policies and government, Khan was forced to hold the general election of 1970.
Pressured by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Khan refused to hand over the powers to the majority party, Awami League and situation in East-Pakistan ran out of government control, prompting Khan to authorized military operations, like Operation Searchlight, in the entire provisional state.
Isolated, and attempting to forestall further unrest, Khan handed over the power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on December 16, 1971, and stepped down as Commander-in-Chief.
Yahya became the highest-ranking casualty of the war: to forestall further unrest, on December 20, 1971 he handed over power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, age 43, the ambitious leader of West Pakistan's powerful People's Party.
Shortly after Yahya Khan stepped down, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reversed Rahimuddin Khan's verdict, released Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and saw him off to London.
As Pakistani President, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ordered the house arrest of his predecessor, Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, the man who imprisoned Mujib in the first place.
Zulfikar and January
Shortly, roughly two weeks past after experiencing the 1971 winter war, on 20 January 1972, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto rallied a conference of nuclear scientists and engineers at Multan.
Zulfikar and 1928
** Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan ( executed ) ( b. 1928 )
* Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ( 1928 – 1979 ), Pakistani statesman, Founder chairman Pakistan Peoples Party
Zulfikar and –
** – President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announces that Pakistan will immediately begin a nuclear weapons programme.
* Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – former Prime Minister of Pakistan
* Zulfikar " Zuko " Džumhur ( 1921, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1989 ) was a Bosnian writer, painter and caricaturist.
Zulfikar and 4
Despite the accusation being " widely doubted by the public ", and many clemency appeals from foreign leaders, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged on 4 April 1979 under the effective orders of Supreme Court of Pakistan.
On 1 March 1976, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto approved then-3 star general Lieutenant-General Zia as Chief of Army Staff and to be elevated to 4 star rank.
On 8 March 1978 the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was executed on 4 April 1979 by the orders of Supreme Court.
Zulfikar and April
Zulfikar Bhutto was hanged on April 1979 despite the international pressure.
Known as the Constitution of 1973, it was drafted by the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and, following additions by the opposition parties, was approved by the legislative assembly on April 10, 1973.
The Assembly passed the bill nearly unanimously on 19 April 1973 and endorsed by the acting President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on 12 April 1973.
* Zulfikar Ghose-UHV / ABR Reading Series, a talk at the University of Houston's Alcorn Auditorium in April 2009, hosted by the American Book Review.
The Assembly passed the bill nearly unanimously on 19 April 1973 and endorsed by the acting President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on 12 April 1973.
Zulfikar and 1979
Pakistan Peoples Party's relations with the United States are reportedly complex and cold, starting in 1970s when Peoples Party faced a cold war with the United States, further losing its charismatics leader Zulfikar Bhutto in 1979.
After the ouster of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, negotiations for the winding up of the Hyderabad tribunal and the release of all detainees was initiated leading to their eventual release in 1979.
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