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Pakistan's Bhutto, hanged 44 years ago, didn't get a fair trial, rules top court
The founder of PPP and ex-prime minister was hanged in 1979 after a trial under the military regime of late General Zia-ul-Haq
Supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party ride a car with a poster of the country’s former premiers Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (L) and Benazir Bhutto during an election campaign rally in Karachi. — AFP file
Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged 44 year ago after being convicted of murder, didn't get a fair trial.
Bhutto, the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) now run by his grandson and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, was hanged in 1979 after a trial under the military regime of late General Zia-ul-Haq.
"We didn't find that the fair trial and due process requirements were met," said Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa in remarks telecast live of the ruling that he said was a unanimous decision by a nine-member bench headed by him.
The ruling came in response to a judicial reference filed by Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari's father, Asif Ali Zardari, during his tenure as president in 2011. It sought an opinion by the top court on revisiting the death sentence awarded to the PPP founder.
"Our family waited 3 generations to hear these words," Bhutto Zardari said later in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The court will issue a detailed order later.
"It is an admission of colossal miscarriage of justice under Zia's martial law regime," said Yousuf Nazar, London-based political commentator and a close aide of the late prime minister.
Rights groups say Haq's 11 years of dictatorship were marked by an assault on democracy, persecution and jailing of PPP workers and public flogging of opponents and critics.
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