Murtaza Bhutto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Pakistani politician
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Place of Birth: Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan
About Murtaza Bhutto
- Mir Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto (18 September 1954 – 20 September 1996) was a Pakistani politician.
- He was the son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his Iranian Kurdish wife Nusrat.
- He started the criminal organization Al-Zulfiqar after his father was overthrown and executed in 1979 by General Zia-ul-Haq.
- He moved to Afghanistan as a fugitive and 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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