Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and statesman who founded the Pakistan People's Party and served as President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977. April 1979 he was executed. in Punjab, Pakistan, after being overthrown in a military coup by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Bhutto allegedly killed the father of his political opponent, Mr. Ahmad Raza Kasuri. There are, however, conspiracies that the death of Mr. Kasuri's father was not the only reason Bhutto was executed, or even at all. These theories say that someone wanted Bhutto dead, including the general who ousted him – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq – and the United States. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was born on January 5, 1928. He was the only son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto. his two older brothers had died in childhood. In 1947 he joined the University of Southern California and in 1949 the University of California at Berkeley. After graduating cum laude in political science from Berkeley in June 1950, he was admitted to Oxford. On September 8, 1951, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto married Nusrat Isphahani and on June 21, 1953, his first child, Benazir Bhutto, was born. In 1958, Bhutto joined the cabinet of President Iskander Mirza as commerce minister. In 1963, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs. (About Bhutto. (nd))In 1967, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founded the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to resolve the problem of "dictatorial and anti-people policies of the military-bureaucratic-feudal power nexus" that ruled the country since its creation. was established in 1947. (Life and Legacy of Founder President PPP. (nd).) The program aimed to meet the basic human needs of every citizen of Pakistan. Soon, the PPP became the largest...... middle of paper ......ttp://sixhour.com/cia_sent%20bhutto_to_the_gallows.htmFull text of "Trial and Execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto". (nd). Full text of “Trial and execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto”. Retrieved November 30, 2013 from http://archive.org/stream/TrialAndExecutionOfZulfikarAliBhutto/TheTrialAndExecutionOfBhutto_djvu.txtLife and legacy of Founding President PPP. (nd). Life and Legacy of the Founding Chairman PPP. Retrieved November 30, 2013 from http://www.ppp.org.pk/zab/zabbio.html Ouster by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. (nd). History of Pakistan RSS. Retrieved December 14, 2013 from http://storyofpakistan.com/ouster-of-zulfiqar-ali-bhutto/Taseer, S. (1980). Bhutto, a political biography. New Delhi: Vikas Pub. House.Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved at 10:58 a.m. on November 26, 2013 from http://www.biography.com/people/zulfikar-ali-bhutto-9211759.