45th death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being observed today

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KARACHI: The 45th death anniversary of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founder and former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is being observed today (Thursday).

On the occasion of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s martyrdom anniversary, members of the Pakistan People’s Party and democrats from all over Pakistan pay their respects to him. The main ceremony including Quran Khawani will be held at ZAB Family Mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Larkana.

Earlier, the Sindh government had announced a public holiday today to mark the death anniversary of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged at Central Jail in Rawalpindi on April 4, 1979, after former military ruler Gen. Ziaul Haq upheld the death sentence on murder charges of his political rival Nawab Mohammed Ahmed Qasuri. Amid petitions and appeals of clemency, he was hanged and laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, a village in Larkana, Sindh.

Bhutto, born on January 5, 1928, was the first elected prime minister of the country and gave the first unanimous constitution to Pakistan in 1973.

However, a recent verdict from the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto innocent and observed that he was not given a fair trial. SC announced its reserved opinion on the presidential reference filed by Asif Ali Zardari against the ‘controversial’ death sentence awarded to the former Prime Minister.

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