Islamabad: The hearing of the presidential reference filed against the execution of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto will be held in the Supreme Court today.
According to the details, the Supreme Court will hear the presidential reference to declare the execution of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as judicial murder today.
A nine-member larger bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faizisai will hold the hearing, in a nine-member larger bench Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Aminuddin and Justice Jamal Mandukhel, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi and Justice Musrat. Halali included.
Chairman People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto has demanded to broadcast the Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto reference hearing live.
Bilawal Bhutto has said in the petition filed in the Supreme Court that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged on the charge of conspiracy to murder, Bhutto’s ideology is still alive today, the reference hearing should be allowed to be broadcast live.
Bilawal Bhutto said in a conversation with the media yesterday that Bhutto’s killers will be exposed, he is grateful to the Chief Justice for appointing a reference.
It should be remembered that former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was sentenced to death in the murder case of Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri, the deceased was the father of Bhutto’s political rival Ahmad Raza Kasuri.
Judge Justice Naseem Hasan Shah, who upheld the High Court’s verdict, later admitted that General Zia had pressured Bhutto to sentence him to death.
It should be remembered that in November 1974, Ahmed Raza Kasuri, a political rival of Zulfiqar Bhutto, was attacked. Ahmad Raza Kasuri’s father, Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan, was killed in the firing, after which Ahmad Raza Kasuri blamed Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
On July 5, 1977, General Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Bhutto’s government and the Lahore High Court, headed by Maulvi Mushtaq, sentenced Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to death in the Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri murder case.
The Supreme Court four. The verdict was confirmed by a ratio of three and on 4 April 1979, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged in Korawalpindi Jail.
Justice Naseem Hasan Shah, one of the four judges who later pronounced the death sentence, admitted in an interview that General Zia had pressed for the death sentence.
In 2011, the government filed a reference through Bhutto’s son-in-law and the then president Asif Zardari, the reference is based on the interview of Justice Naseem Hasan Shah, but the Supreme Court did not give a decision even after six hearings at that time, now about 11 After a long wait of a year, the Supreme Court will hear again from tomorrow.
