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Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
DECEMBER 20, 1971 - AUGUST 14, 1973


Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 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.

Bhutto was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States and University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He was noted for his economic initiatives and authoring Pakistan's nuclear programme. He was executed in 1979 after the Supreme Court of Pakistan sentenced him to death for allegedly authorizing the murder of a political opponent. The perception is that this was a politically motivated judicial murder.

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