Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was a
Pakistani politician who served as the
fourth President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as the
ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. He was the founder of the
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the largest and most influential political party in Pakistan. His daughter
Benazir Bhutto also served twice as prime minister.
Educated at the
University of California, Berkeley, in the United States and University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, Bhutto was noted for his economic initiatives and authoring and administrating
Pakistan's nuclear deterrence programme, for this he is known in the world as
Father of Nuclear Programme. He was executed in 1979 after the
Supreme Court of Pakistan sentenced him to death for authorizing the murder of a
political opponent,
[2][3] in a move that many believe was done under the directives of General
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
Political career
In 1957, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became the youngest member of Pakistan's delegation to the United Nations. He would address the
United Nations Sixth Committee on Aggression on 25 October 1957 and lead Pakistan's deputation to the first
United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in 1958. In the same year, Bhutto became the youngest Pakistani cabinet minister when he was given charge of the energy ministry by President Muhammad
Ayub Khan, who had seized power and declared
martial law. He was subsequently promoted to head the ministries of commerce, information and industries. Bhutto became a close and trusted advisor to Ayub, rising in influence and power despite his youth and relative inexperience in politics. Bhutto aided Ayub in negotiating the
Indus Water Treaty with India in 1960. In 1961, Bhutto negotiated an oil exploration agreement with the
Soviet Union, which also agreed to provide economic and technical aid to Pakistan.
Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States and University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, Bhutto was noted for his economic initiatives and authoring and administrating Pakistan's nuclear deterrence programme, for this he is known in the world as Father of Nuclear Programme. He was executed in 1979 after the Supreme Court of Pakistan sentenced him to death for authorizing the murder of a political opponent,[2][3] in a move that many believe was done under the directives of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
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