Date of Birth: January 5, 1928Father’s Name: Sir Shahnawaz Khan Bhutto
Place of Birth: Larkana District
Mother’s Name: Lady Khursheed Begum
Mother Tongue: Sindhi
Marriage: Married at Karachi to Ms Nusrat Ispahani September 8, 1951.
Childern: Benazir Bhutto – 1953 – 2007 Murtaza Bhutto – 1954 – 1996 Sanam Bhutto – 1957 Shahnawaz Bhutto – 1958 – 1985
Education
- Cathedral School, Bombay – 1937 – 1947
- Joined University of Southern California – 1947
- Transferred to Berkely Campus of USC – 1949
- First Asian to be elected to Berkely Student Council
- Graduated with Honours in Political Science – 1950
- Admitted to Christ Church College, Oxford – 1950
- Graduated with Honours from Oxford University – 1952
- Called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn – 1953
- Lecturer of Sindh Muslim Law College – 1954
- Member of Pakistan Delegation to the United Nations – 1957
- Addressed the United Nations Sixth Committee on Aggression – October 25, 1957
- Leader of Pakistan Delegation to United Nations Conference on the Law of the Seas, addressed the Conference on the Freedom of the Seas.- March – 1958
Ministerial Career
- Minister of Commerce – 1958
- Minister for Information and National Reconstruction – 1959
- Minister for Fuel, Power and Natural Resources – 1960
- Leader of Pakistan Delegation to the UN – 1959, 1960, 1963 & 1965 Statement in support of Algeria against French Imperialism at UN – 1959
- Leader of Pakistan Delegation to Moscow to negotiate agreement on Oil and Gas Exploration with Soviet Union with 120 Million Roubles credit – 1960
- Led Pakistan’s Delegation to UN and differed with US by not voting against China’s Membership – 1960
- Foreign Minister of Pakistan – 1963 – 1965
- Sino-Pakistan Boundary Agreement, gaining 750 Square Miles for Pakistan 2nd March – 1963
- Famous Speech at the U.N. Security Council “We will wage a war for a thousand years” – 22-23 September 1965
- Resigned from the Federal Cabinet – June, 1966
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)
- Historic welcome in Lahore after resignation as Foreign Minister – 21st June, 1966
- Manifesto of Pakistan Peoples Party prepared
- “Islam is our Faith, Democracy is our Policy, Socialism is our Economy, All Power to the People”. October, 1966
- Foundation of Pakistan Peoples Party, Lahore – 30th November, 1967
- Led Mass Movement for Restoration of Democracy – 1968
- Arrested for creating disaffection against Government – November 12, 1968
- Landslide victory for PPP in 1970 elections in present day Pakistan – December 7, 1970
President / Prime Minister
- Economic Reforms Order Nationalisation of Key Industries – January 3, 1972
- Announcement of Labour Policies – February 10, 1972
- Workers would participate in Profits
- Old Age Pensions and Group Insurance
- Land Reforms – 1st March, 1973
- Ceiling reduced from 500 Acres to 150 Acres of irrigated land and 1000 Acres to 300 Acres for semi-irrigated land. All lands in excess of 100 Acres allocated to Govt. Servants confiscated and redistributed.
- The Law Reform Ordinance – giving effect to the recommendations of the Law Reforms Commission. – 14th April, 1972
- Martial Law Lifted 21st April, 1972
- Simla Agreement Signed
- Pakistan to get back 5000 square miles of territory occupied in 1971 war. India and Pakistan to respect line of control in Kashmir without prejudice to Pakistan’s claim. – 2nd July, 1972
- National Book Foundation established – 24th September, 1972
- Inaugurated Pakistan’s first Nuclear Power Plant at Karachi. – 28th November, 1972
- Establishment of NDFC – 5th February, 1973
- Establishment of Quaid-E-Azam University – 9th February, 1973
- Constitution of Pakistan passed unanimously – 12th April, 1973
- Establishment of Port Qasim Authority – 27th June, 1973
- Elected Prime Minister of Pakistan – 14th August, 1973
- Identity Cards for Citizens – 28th July, 1973
- Agreement for repatriation of 93,000 POWs – 28th August, 1973
- Administrative Reforms Order – September, 1973
- Laid Foundation Stone of Pakistan Steel Mill – 30th December, 1973
- Nationalisation of Banks – 1st January, 1974
- Establishment of Gomal University Dera Ismail Khan – 01 May 1974
- Establishment of Allama Iqbal Open University – 21st May, 1974
- Islamic Summit at Lahore – 22 February, 1975
- Inaugurated Pakistan’s First Seerat Conference – 3rd March, 1976
- Kissinger warned Zulfikar Ali Bhutto that if Pakistan continued with its nuclear programme “the Prime Minister would have to pay a heavy price.” – August, 1976
- Bhutto proposed a Third World Summit – September, 1976
Betrayal and Assassination
INTERVIEWS
INTERVIEW TO B.B.C.
London, August, 1966
INTERVIEW TO BBC CORRESPONDENT, JAN MACINTYRE,
February 18 1972
INTERVIEW TO DILIP MUKERJEE OF “TIMES OF INDIA” AND B. K. TIWARI OF “INDIAN EXPRESS”
Larkana, March 14, 1972
INTERVIEW TO KULDIP NAYAR, CORRESPONDENT OF THE INDIAN DAILY “STATEMENT”
March 27, 1972
INTERVIEW TO DR. WALTER BERG, GERMAN TELEVISION,
April 2, 1972
INTERVIEW WITH HISTORY ORIANA FALLACI
Karachi, April 1972
INTERVIEW TO RICHARD LINDLEY INDEPENDENT TELEVISION NEWS, LONDON.
April 25, 1972
INTERVIEW TO DER SPIEGEL
April 26, 1972
INTERVIEW TO GEORGE VERGES OF “THE HINDUSTAN TIMES”
Rawalpindi, May 4, 1972
INTERVIEW TO PETER GRUBBVE EDITOR OF GERMAN WEEKLY MAGAZINE “STERN”
May 1972
INTERVIEW TO PIERO SARACENI REPRESENTATIVE OF ITALIAN TELEVISION
Lahore, May 13, 1972
INTERVIEW WITH AMERICAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION,
Telecast on May 14, 1972
INTERVIEW WITH AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION
Quetta, May 22, 1972
INTERVIEW TO MAHBOOB A. NAJIMI, OF THE “ KUWAIT TIMES”
May 26, 1972
PRESS INTERVIEW AT TANDO MOHAMMAD KHAN
July 30, 1972
INTERVIEW TO ERICH DAMMEN OF SWISS TELEVISION, AT RAWALPINDI,
August 9, 1972
INTERVIEW TO KULDIP NAYAR, CORRESPONDENT OF THE INDIAN DAILY “Statesman”, AT RAWALPINDI
August 16, 1972
INTERVIEW TO R. K. KARANJIA, EDITOR, “BLITZ”, BOMBOY, AT RAWALPINDI,
September 7, 1972
INTERVIEW WITH MR.VAN ROSMALEN, CHIEF EDITIOR, ELSEVIERS MAGAZINE, AMSTERDAM
October 1, 1972.
INTERVIEW WITH R. K. KARANJIA, EDITOR-IN-CHARGE, BLITZ, BOMBAY
October 31, 1972
INTERVIEW WITH CBS TELEVISION TEAM
November 1, 1972
INTERVIEW WITH MR. WALTER SCHWARTZ, GUARDIAN, LONDON,
November 16th, 1972
INTERVIEW TO MEMBERS OF IRANIAN PRESS DELEGATION,
December 4, 1972
INTERVIEW TO LOREN JENKINS, CORRESPONDENT OF “Newsweek”,
December 5, 1972
TELEVISION INTERVIEW WITH MR. H. K. BURKI AND MR. SAFDAE QURESHI,
December 20, 1972
INTERVIEW TO THE FRENCH DAILY, “Le Monde”
December 26, 1972
INTERVIEW TO ROMANIAN JOURNALISTS, CORNEL RADUCANU OF “Lumea”, AND ILIE CIURESCU OF THE TELEVISION, AT KARACHI,
December 30, 1972
INTERVIEW WITH MR. REGGIE MICHAEL EDITOR, TIMES OF CEYLON
February 8, 1973
INTERVIEW WITH MR. JOHN BIERMAN, BBC CORRESPONDENT,
February 21, 1973
INTERVIEW WITH MR. HASNAIN HEYKAL, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, AL-AHRAM,
Recorded on March 2, 1973
INTERVIEW GRANTED TO JAPANESE T.V. REPRESENTATIVE
4 March 1973
INTERVIEW TO THE TIME MAGAZINE
March 5, 1973
INTERVIEW WITH ANN LAPPING OF LONDON WEEKEND TV PROGRAM
March 25, 1973
INTERVIEW TO RADIO PAKISTAN ABOUT THE PUNJAB PEOPLE’S FESTIVAL
March 31, 1973
INTERVIEW WITH MR. WILLIAM STEWART, CORRESPONDENT TIMES
July 21, 1973
INTERVIEW TO THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE AMERICAN DAILY “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR”, AT RAWALPINDI,
August 2, 1973
INTERVIEW TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY OF INDIA”,
August 10, 1973
INTERVIEW TO THE SATISH KUMAR AUTHOR OF BOOK “THE NEW PAKISTAN“
December 28, 1973
INTERVIEW GRANTED TO MR. IMTIAZ AHMAD, MANAGING EDITOR OF “Asia Observer”, LONDON, AT LARKANA
December 24, 1975
INTERVIEW GRANTED TO DR. AMIN ABOUL ENEIN EDITOR, “Egyptian Gazette” AND “Egyptian Mail”, AT LAHORE
January 29, 1976
INTERVIEW TO MR. FARIBORZ ATAPOUR CORRESPONDENT OF TEHRAN JOURNAL,
September 10, 1976
Betrayal and Assassination
General Elections were held on March 7, 1977. PPP emerged as the victorious 
Party. At the behest of General Ziaul Haq, PNA accused government of so-called rigging in the elections. Negotiations with PNA resumed. An Agreement was reached on June 8, 1977 for holding Fresh Elections on October 8, 1977.
On July 5, 1977 COAS General Ziaul Haq imposed Martial Law unilaterally. The National Assembly, the Senate and Provincial Assemblies were dissolved and Constitution held in abeyance.
Zia’s Military Junta established a dummy government of PNA with CMLA as President. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto arrested on July, 5, 1977 and released on July 28, 1977.
Re-arrested on September 3, 1977 from Clifton, Karachi, on the charges of a fabricated murder case; again released on September 13, 1977 against Lahore High Court bail. Re-arrested at Larkana on September 17, 1977.
On September, 1977 the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr. Justice Yakub Ali Khan was suspended from service because he had admitted Mrs. Nusrat Bhuto’s Petition challenging imposition of martial law.
On October 9, 1977, Maulvi Mushtaq, Chief Justice, Lahore High Court, cancelled the bail already granted to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by LHC.
Mercilessly and despicably murdered on April 4, 1979.