Murtaza Bhutto
| Mir Murtaza Bhutto مير مرتضی بھٹو |
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|---|---|
| Born |
18 September 1954 Karachi, Pakistan |
| Died | 20 September 1996 (aged 42) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Cause of death | Police encounter |
| Resting place | Garhi Khuda Baksh, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Criminal charge |
Airplane hijacking Terrorism |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Spouse(s) | Fauzia Fasihuddin Bhutto Ghinwa Bhutto |
| Parent(s) |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Nusrat Bhutto |
| Allegiance | Al-Zulfiqar |
| Motive | Overthrow of Zia regime |
| Conviction(s) | 1981, by military tribunal |
Mir Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto (18 September 1954 – 20 September 1996), was a Pakistani politician operating in Pakistan. The son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Murtaza founded al-Zulfiqar after his father was overthrown and executed in 1979 by the military regime of General Zia-ul-Haq. In 1981, he claimed responsibility for the murder of conservative politician Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi, and the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft from Karachi, during which he killed a hostage Lieutenant Tariq Rahim, a young officer of Pakistan Army. In exile in Afghanistan, Murtaza was sentenced to death in absentia by a military tribunal.
He returned to Pakistan in 1993 and was arrested for terrorism on the orders of his sister, then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Released on bail, Murtaza successfully contested elections to the Sindh Provincial Assembly, becoming a vocal critic of Benazir and her husband Asif Ali Zardari. After increasing tensions between the two, he was shot dead along with six associates in a police encounter near his home in Karachi on 20 September 1996. Benazir's government was dismissed a month later by President Farooq Leghari primarily citing Murtaza's death and corruption. Zardari was arrested and indicted for Murtaza's murder, but acquitted in 2008. Murtaza's own faction of his father's Pakistan People's Party, Shaheed Bhutto, remains active in politics.
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