Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is still the most popular leader of Pakistan who was hanged on April 4, 1979 in Rawalpindi Jail at the age of 51.
He achieved great success in his short life, hardly any leader of the world has been blessed with so much popularity and fame as he got in his short life of 51 years.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was born on January 5, 1928 to his father Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto's second wife, Lakhi Bai alias Khurshid Begum. Lakhibai Poona was a woman from an ordinary Indian family and was the eldest son of a poor mother.
His mother was not well regarded in Bhutto's feudal clan, that was the reason why Zulfikar Ali Bhutto loved and cared for his mother immensely and that is why he was the poor and destitute people of this country.
Become a leader. He did not gain power with the help of his traditional Sindhi feudal power, but he proved to be an unconventional person of his class who gained power by creating chaos in the feudal system with his political insight and was hanged on the gallows. Immortalized it in the papers. Even today there is an atmosphere of Bhutto hostility on one side and Bhutto friendship on the other.
Bhutto's fear disease ie (Bhuttophobia) in which Bhutto's opponents are suffering. On the other hand Bhutto fanatic or (Bhutto Philia) is madly in love with Bhutto. To understand the politics of Pakistan, one has to
understand Bhutto. One has to understand their personality and character, one has to understand the historical and social aspects of their surroundings. Why is Bhutto and his party popular today? Fascist, fundamentalist forces of the country are against him, if Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was only a landlord or a noble, then why do the common people and farmers still remember and love him?
Because Bhutto gave the people a language, made them feel their dignity, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto created a culture of open discourse in his government. The old farmer was happy to be insulted by one of our rascals, which had a psychological advantage. Logon Kwas brought a sense of salvation and this open conversation, Khali Kachari used to be a popular general political forum.
Through which the intellectual revolution started for the first time and people started raising symbolic slogans that the votes belonged to Bhutto, which actually expressed popular resistance against the imposing forces of the time and made Bhutto the symbol of their resistance.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto got only 12 years to establish his Pakistan Peoples Party from 1967 to 1979.
In which he gained power along with giving a voice to the people, gave development and prosperity to the country and within a short span of 12 years after the establishment of his party. During this period, he was not only deprived of power but also executed by the joint conspiracies of international forces, generals and judges.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was born into a feudal family in Sindh but his mother's sense of poverty and his father's upbringing kept him away from traditional feudal politics and he emerged as a rebel politician of his class.
In one of his speeches, he said that I am not greedy for wealth, I have not spent even a single rupee from the national treasury unnecessarily, thousands of acres of land of my family have been distributed among farmers in agrarian reforms.
I have the power of the people more than the power of the atomic bomb, I have fought for democracy and socialism. For this I have given up my feudal status. I am a socialist, an honest socialist who will fight till my last breath for the poor here.
I am ready to make any kind of sacrifice, I am ready to sacrifice my life and my children's life, I am not at all afraid of being killed and he challenged by unbuttoning his shirt saying, let's shoot. , I'm ready.
If even one Bhutto is killed for the sake of the people, thousands of Bhuttos will be born and finally his words and speeches proved true, he not only sacrificed his life but also fulfilled his promise to the people. And were killed while fighting these elements.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's popularity and determination were not tolerated by the powerful establishment, military generals, religious parties and judges. who was removed from power by a military coup on July 5. He was imprisoned in a false case of murder.
The case against him was tried directly in the Lahore High Court instead of the lower court During which Judge Justice Samdani, who granted his bail application, was removed from the Lahore High Court and General Zia-ul-Haq appointed his close friend Maulvi Mushtaq to prosecute Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and all the judges including Maulvi Mushtaq rejected him.Sentenced to death.
When Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's appeal was filed in the Supreme Court, the two judges of the bench handling the case were forcibly removed. The bench of the Supreme Court included Anwar Haq, a supporter of General Zia-ul-Haq, who was also the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. .
who had no experience and training in conducting judicial proceedings, but he was an administrator. Anwar Haq called General Zia-ul-Haq's military revolution to overthrow Bhutto's government as an ideological necessity and justified it. In this case against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, General Zia-ul-Haq's lawyers were Garhi Yasin-born Sindhi AK Brohi and Attorney General Sharifuddin Pirzadu. While three non-Punjabi judges Justice Darab Patel, Justice Safdar Ali Shah and Justice Haleem acquitted Bhutto out of the seven judges who sentenced him to death. On the biography of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, American professor Stanley Wolpert has written in "Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan" that when he met the judge who sentenced Bhutto, Anwar Haq.
He asked why Bhutto was given death sentence. So that you inquire of Justice Cornelius about his qualifications When Walpert met a very weak and sick Justice Cornelius at the Flats Hotel Lahore, he asked him how he viewed Anwar Haq's decision to execute Bhutto, to which he said that Anwar Haq must have made the right decision. And Wolpert said of himself that I was born in Calcutta, After partition my Punjabi friends helped me.
While living in Lahore, I became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and thanks to these Punjabis, I got this important position. He said that the Sindhis cannot be trusted, if snakes and Sindhis get together and you have only one bullet, kill the Sindhis first. These were the views of Anwar Haq's teacher and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan regarding the Sindhis. Which shows that thoughts and decisions regarding the leadership of Sindhis have always been made on the basis of Sindhi hostility.
When Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged in Rawalpindi Jail, General Zia-ul-Haq consulted three of his Sindhi-sympathetic politicians and asked them that I have decided to hang Bhutto and advise me to bury his body in a Be buried in prison, in an unknown place, or his body should be given over to the sea, or his body should be given to his heirs. On which two of his friends advised him to hand over the dead body to his relatives while the third close friend suggested to bury Bhutto's body outside Sindh in Peshawar.
Therefore, there is a politics of Bhutto friendship and Bhutto hostility at the national level and also in Sindh today. The sacrifices of Bhutto and his family and the qualities of giving language and giving political consciousness and power to the people are the axis of Pakistani politics.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto did good deeds as well as mistakes during his time which are also a part of history but the Bhutto factor is still the biggest reality of this country. , but even today the Bhutto factor is the biggest reality of this country. There was no abatement in his desires.
Ishak Soomro 
