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Pak SC Resumes Hearing Of Long Pending Case Against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s Death Sentence

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday has resumed hearing a long-pending presidential reference seeking to revisit the 1979 controversial death penalty given to former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

A 9-member larger bench of the top court, headed by chief justice Qazi Faez Isa, took up the case for hearing.

Bhutto was hanged to death in 1979 after he was convicted for the abetment in a murder case. The execution was carried after a 7 members Supreme Court upheld the conviction, which many believed was done under coercion exercised by then military dictator Gen Ziaul Haq who toppled Bhutto’s government in 1977.

On April 2, 2011, Former President Asif Ali Zardari sent a formal request to the court for an opinion on revisiting the death sentence given to Bhutto under the advisory jurisdiction of Supreme Court.

The case was last heard by an 11-judge panel, headed by then chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, in Jan 2012. The case proceedings are being broadcast live on the request of Bhutto’s grandson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

Bhutto is revered as a symbol of resistance to undemocratic forces in Pakistan and a champion of the underdog.

Meera Verma

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