PAKISTAN JUSTICE POLITICS

Former President Zardari attends Supreme Court hearing on 12-year-old presidential reference on revisiting ZA Bhutto's trial

epa11024416 Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of Pakistan People's Party, speaks to journalists after a supreme court hearing related to a 12-year-old presidential reference on revisiting ZA Bhutto's, in Islamabad, Pakistan, 12 December 2023. The Supreme Court of Pakistan has reopened hearings into the 1979 controversial hanging of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during the military rule of Zia-ul-Haq. Critics have labeled Bhutto's execution as a 'judicial murder,' and his granddaughter Aseefa Bhutto Zardari has called for the Supreme Court to rectify this injustice. Bhutto, who was also the president of Pakistan and the founder of the Pakistan People's Party, was removed from power in 1977 by a military coup led by General Zia-ul Haq, who subsequently sentenced him to death. The case was reopened in 2011 by his son-in-law and then-president Asif Ali Zardari, but the Supreme Court has now set the next hearing date for January 2024. EPA/SOHAIL SHAHZAD

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