Execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former prime minister and president of Pakistan, was executed on 4 April 1979. Bhutto was sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted in the murder case arising from a 1974 shooting in Lahore in which opposition politician Ahmad Raza Kasuri survived and his father, Nawab Mohammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri, was killed. The Supreme Court of Pakistan upheld the sentence by a 4–3 majority in February 1979, and a review petition was dismissed in March. The execution was carried out in secrecy at Rawalpindi jail in the early hours of 4 April, after President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq rejected domestic and international appeals for clemency. His body was flown to Sindh and buried the same day at the family graveyard in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh. The hanging remained one of the most controversial acts in Pakistani political and judicial history. In March 2024, the Supreme Court opined that Bhutto had not received a fair trial and that due process requirements had not been met.

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