Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ( Urdu ذوالفقار علی بھٹو; * January 5, 1928 in Larkana , Presidency of Bombay , British India , today Sindh , Pakistan ; † April 4, 1979 in Rawalpindi ) was President from 1971 to 1973 and then Prime Minister of Pakistan until July 5, 1977 .
politics
Bhutto was trade and foreign minister and finally defense minister of (West) Pakistan during the war of civil secession against Bangladesh , the former East Pakistan. After his defeat in the 1971 war against India over the Bangladesh conflict, Bhutto's Pakistani People's Party (PPP) came to power in the 1972 elections and became president. With the entry into force of the new constitution on August 14, 1973, Bhutto took over the post of Prime Minister with extensive powers . One of Bhutto's major achievements was that Pakistan became a nuclear power under his rule .
On July 5, 1977, after protests by the Muslim League and the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) because of electoral fraud, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, launched a coup and deposed Bhutto (see Operation Fair Play ). Bhutto was sentenced to death for alleged incitement to murder an opposition politician and was hanged in Rawalpindi on April 4, 1979, despite international protests . His last words were: "Have mercy on me - I die innocent."
family members
Three of his children died a violent death like himself: Murtaza Bhutto was shot by the police in 1996, Shahnawaz Bhutto died under unclear circumstances in French exile (whereby his wife was acquitted of all suspicions after her initial arrest on suspicion of espionage, but from parts of the Bhutto family continues to be accused of murder) and his daughter Benazir Bhutto , who served twice as head of government of Pakistan between 1988 and 1996, was assassinated on December 27, 2007 after an election campaign.
literature
- Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1979 of May 14, 1979, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible).
Web links
- Literature by and about Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shahid-ur Rehman: Long Road to Chagai . 1 (1 ed.). Printwise Publications, Islamabad 1999, ISBN 969-8500-00-6 , pp. 21-23.
- ↑ Olaf Ihlau: The curse on the Bhutto clan. In: Spiegel Online . October 19, 2007, accessed February 21, 2011 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan |
President of Pakistan 1971–1973 |
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry |
| vacant since 1971, before that Nurul Amin |
Prime Minister of Pakistan 1973–1977 |
vacant until 1985, then Muhammad Khan Junejo |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pakistani politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Larkana , Pakistan |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4th 1979 |
| Place of death | Rawalpindi |