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Daily Times
April 2, 2018
In its April 5th issue, The Guardian wrote, 'Millions of Pakistanis mourn the fate of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Widely revered by the mass of ordinary people…He was a politician who broke away from the gentlemanly cabals of wealthy landowners and bureaucrats who had previously ruled Pakistan between militaryÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 30, 2018
Even Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, after being ousted in July, 1977, badly missed his ideological leaders like JA Rahim and Meraj Mohammad Khan. He once ... When Ayub defeated Fatima Jinnah in a controlled-democratic order and crushed ideological politics, the then young Zulfikar Ali Bhutto emerged as a newÃâà...
ARY NEWS
March 30, 2018
Initially after joining Iskander Mirza's government as Commerce Minister and the youngest member of Ayub Khan's cabinet, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto rose in prominence as a young, intelligent, firebrand politician and took over the coveted portfolio of Foreign Minister from Mohommad Ali Bogra in 1963. As ForeignÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 30, 2018
KARACHI: The Sindh government has issued a notification declaring April 4 as a public holiday across the province to mark the death anniversary of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The notification read, “The government of Sindh is pleased to declare April 4, 2018 as a publicÃâà...
Hindustan Times
March 30, 2018
Despite having a common history and people of largely the same stock, how did India become a stable democracy while Pakistan did not? No scholar has yet had the final word on this puzzle. But Zia ul Haq's decision to hang Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979 is often seen as a key point in Pakistan's historyÃâà...
Samaa Web Desk
March 29, 2018
KARACHI: The Sindh government has declared April 4 as a public holiday throughout the province of Sindh, on the account of 39th martyrdom anniversary of former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. According to a statement issued here on Thursday, the holiday is declared for all offices, autonomous,Ãâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 28, 2018
Pakistan's embrace of the Arab world, especially Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, is the direct fallout of the crushing military defeat India inflicted on its Muslim neighbour resulting in the permanent loss of East Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh, according to a new book on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,Ãâà...
Free Press Journal
March 17, 2018
People in Pakistan continue to remember Zulfikar Ali Bhutto even after 39 years of his hanging. Pakistan's former Prime Minister was hanged on April 4th, 1979 in Rawalpindi. It was termed as 'judicial murder'. Syeda Hamid, the former member of Planning Commission of India, has come out with anotherÃâà...
Business Standard
March 14, 2018
The job becomes much tougher when the writer is Indian and the subject is Pakistan's former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the complex and contradictory politician, master orator, hero to some and villain to others. Perhaps it's no surprise that it took author Syeda Hameed 20 years to pen this .
UrduPoint News
March 8, 2018
LARKANA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 08th Mar, 2018 ):Deputy Commissioner Larkana, Kahsif Ali Tipu, reviewed the arrangements for 39th Death Anniversary of former Prime Minister and founding chairman of PPP Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto which is to be held at Garhi Khuda Bux Bhutto on AprilÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 2, 2018
Subsequently, the court directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to submit the travel histories of 6,001 people who changed their religious status from Muslim to Ahmedi. Ahmedis, a persecuted community, were declared non-Muslim by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1974, and then came military dictator ZiaulÃâà...
Daily Times
March 2, 2018
Chief Justice Shahabuddin once commented on Justice AR Cornelius that he was 'more Muslim than a Muslim'. Cornelius referred to himself as a 'Constitutional Muslim'. But when Yahya Khan in 1971 appointed Cornelius and G W Choudhry to draft a new constitution, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the then foreignÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 2, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Former president and Pakistan People's Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated the people of Balochistan for observing Baloch Cultural Day. In a message, he said that culture of a nation highlights the civilization of that nation. PPP's founding chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hadÃâà...
Daily Times
March 1, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Capital Administration & Development Division (CADD) secretary on Thursday informed the Senate Functional Committee that proper arrangements for allocation of land for Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU) could not be done and response from the health ministry wasÃâà...
Pakistan Today
February 20, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Junior is the grandson and namesake of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). After leading the country for much of the 1970s, the elder Zulfikar Bhutto was overthrown in a military coup and executed in 1979. Three of his children who wentÃâà...
New York Times
February 20, 2018
The video, posted on the internet last summer, wasn't supposed to be the coming-out story of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. It opens with the voice of a man wryly narrating a fictional encounter in which he is asked to leave an airplane for “speaking Arabian.” The words “Queer Muslim Proud” appear on the screen,Ãâà...
DailyO
February 12, 2018
At the age of 15, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto wrote a letter to Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah on April 26, 1943. His anger at the events in the Frontier and Kashmir spilt on the paper. The events, he wrote, were the pro-India stance of Dr Khan Sahib and Sheikh Mohd Abdullah. “How can Sheikh Mohd AbdullahÃâà...
India Today
February 11, 2018
In 1977, Lahore was abuzz with the syllogism 'Ek qabr do aadmi hain. Kaun jayega andar?' (There's one grave two bodies; which one will go inside?) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) or Zia-ul-Haq. They were to each other Master and his Minion before the Minion became Master. Mubashir Hasan recountedÃâà...
The Indian Express
February 2, 2018
Price: Rs 500. This is an immense labour of love. For twenty years, says Syeda Hameed, she has “lived with a man she never met”: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Over these two decades, she has read all on Bhutto that she has been able to in both English and Urdu; made several research visits to Pakistan; spent timeÃâà...
The Indian Express
December 31, 1999
Lawyers representing the former Pakistani prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, said they would appeal against his conviction for ordering a political assassination. The high court gave Bhutto seven days in which to appeal to the Supreme Court after it sentenced him last Saturday to hanging. Meanwhile, hisÃâà...
The Hindu
December 31, 1999
Last year saw a clustering of anniversaries in Pakistan almost as if to demonstrate that its past will always intrude into the present. 2017 was the 50th anniversary of the founding by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of the Pakistan People's Party, the 40th of the military coup that toppled him and the 10th of theÃâà...
