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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928–April 4, 1979) was a very popular Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977. He was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the largest and most influential political parties of Pakistan. His daughter Benazir Bhutto also served twice as prime minister; she was assassinated on December 27, 2007. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley in the United states and University of Oxford UK, Bhutto was noted for his mercurial brilliance and wit. In 1979 was executed following a highly controversial trial for authorizing the murder of a political opponent. The move was done under the directives of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. A lot of people refer to Bhutto as Shaheed.
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Benazir Bhutto |
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| Benazir Bhutto (June 21, 1953 – December 27, 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). Bhutto was the eldest child of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani of Sindhi descent (Arain) and Shia Muslim by faith, and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, a Pakistani of Iranian-Kurdish descent, of similarly Shia Muslim by faith. Her paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, who came to Larkana District in Sindh before the partition from his native town of Bhatto Kalan, which was situated in the Indian state of Haryana. Bhutto was sworn in for the first time in 1988 at the age of 35, but was removed from office 20 months later under the order of then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993 Bhutto was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on similar charges, this time by President Farooq Leghari. Bhutto went into self-imposed exile in Dubai in 1998. Bhutto returned to Pakistan on October 18, 2007, after reaching an understanding with President Pervez Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. She was assassinated on December 27, 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008 where she was a leading opposition candidate. Return While under house arrest, Benazir Bhutto speaks to supporters outside her house. Bhutto was well aware of the risk to her own life that might result from her return from exile to campaign for the leadership position.
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Asif Ali Zardari |
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| Asif Ali Zardari (born 21 July 1956) is the son of a Pakistani industrialist Hakim Ali Zardari as well as the chief of the Zardari tribe and the widower of the late former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whom he married on 18 December 1987. Their marriage produced three children: Bilawal, Bakhtwar, and Asifa. Member of National Assembly : Asif Zardari served as a member of the National Assembly, and as Environment Minister during the second term of his wife's premiership. His last position in the government of Pakistan was as a senator until 1999 when the senate and assemblies were dissolved by Gen. Pervez Musharraf who took over the reins of the government in a coup against the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Co-chairman of the PPP On 30 December 2007, Asif Ali Zardari was selected to co-chair the PPP with his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Corruption charges and trial In 1990, Zardari was made the Environment Minister during Bhutto's tenure. During the final days of his late wife’s second premiership, just before her government was dissolved by the then president, Farooq Leghari, his brother-in-law Murtaza Bhutto was assassinated. Zardari was subsequently arrested on murder charges in 1996. He was kept in custody from 1997 to 2004 on charges ranging from corruption to murder.
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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari |
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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (born 21 September 1988) is chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and the eldest child and only son of the late Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari. He is also the grandson of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first popularly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan and father of Benazir Bhutto. Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party: Bilawal was appointed chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party on 30 December 2007. His father, Asif Ali Zardari, had been named the new chairman in Benazir Bhutto's will, but he asked for his son to be appointed instead. Asif will be co-chairman. In the same press conference Asif also announced that Bilawal would henceforth use the name "Bilawal Bhutto Zardari", whereas he was previously known as "Bilawal Zardari".
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