See also: Bhutto

Zulfikar Alî Bhutto is a politician Pakistan board born the January 5th 1928, with Larkana (Province of Sindh, with the Pakistan), and carried out by hanging the April 4th 1979.

Wire illegitimate of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, ex-First minister of the old princely state of Junagadh, located in the Gujarat in India, Zulfikar Alî Bhutto begins his studies in Bombay, then continues them with the university of Berkeley in California, and finally with Oxford. In 1953, the year of the birth of his/her daughter Benazir Bhutto, it integrates the bar of London. It goes back then to Pakistan where it exerts its trade before joining, in 1958, the Cabinet of President Iskander Mirza as Ministre of Trade, then succeeds, in 1963, in Muhammad Alî Bogra at the station of Foreign Minister and sign, the same year, the treaty sino-Pakistani (March 2nd).

In June 1966, following disagreements about the agreement of Tachkent, Bhutto resigns of its station and founds the Pakistan People' S Party (PPP), which is worth to him - with the continuation of disorders to be imprisoned, of November 1968 at February 1969. At the time of the general elections of December 1970, the PPP gains a vast majority in Western Pakistan, but fails to conclude an agreement with the sheik Mujib-ur-Rahman who obtained the majority with the Eastern Pakistan, the future Bangladesh. After the civil war of 1971 and the separation of Bangladesh, the Prime Minister Yahya Khân resigns and Bhutto succeeds to him before becoming President of the Republic, the December 20th 1971.

Beginning 1972, Bhutto nationalizes major industries of the country, starts a land reform and withdraws Pakistan of the the Commonwealth and of the Otase when the the United Kingdom and other Western countries recognize the new state bangladais. It signs the agreement of Simla with the India which allows the release of the prisoners Pakistani captured during the war of 1971. After the vote of the constitution of 1973, it takes again the post of Prime Minister to hold the capacity in hand.

But Bhutto controls in an autocratic way however. At the conclusion of a political crisis, it is reversed and imprisoned by the general Zia Ul-Haq, who imposes the martial law the July 5th 1977. Condemned to died for conspiracy of murder, it is hung the April 4th 1979. -----