Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977. He founded the Pakistan Peoples Party in 1967 after earlier serving as foreign minister, and his government oversaw the 1973 constitution and a programme of nationalisation. He was removed in a military coup in 1977, convicted of conspiracy to murder and executed in 1979.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
- A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979) Overlapped 51 years →
- Ahmad Shamlou (1925–2000) Overlapped 51 years →
- Akio Morita (1921–1999) Overlapped 51 years →
- Alan Paton (1903–1988) Overlapped 51 years →
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Overlapped 51 years →
- Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Overlapped 51 years →
Life events
He was born into a landowning family in Sindh.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe studied political science as an undergraduate in the United States.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple's children included Benazir Bhutto and Murtaza Bhutto.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe read jurisprudence at Oxford and was later called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe served as foreign minister in the government of Ayub Khan until 1966.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe party was launched at a convention in Lahore.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe took office after the 1971 war and the secession of East Pakistan, also serving as chief martial law administrator.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe took office as prime minister when the new constitution came into force.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGeneral Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq deposed his government and imposed martial law.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was hanged after being convicted of conspiracy to murder a political opponent.
Source: en.wikipedia.org