KARACHI: Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq, designate leader of the Pakistan People’s Party Sindh parliamentary party, has said that the federal government will be asked through a resolution, to be tabled in the upcoming session of the Sindh Assembly, to declare the execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the PPP founding chairman, as judicial murder.

Zulfikar Bhutto, who served as the president from 1971 to 1973 and as prime minister from 1973 to 1977, was executed on April 4 in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent, which the PPP consider under the directives of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, then president and the chief of the armed forces.

Addressing a news conference on Wednesday, Mazhar told newsmen that another resolution would also be passed in this session by which the Sindh government would be recommended to name any district of the province on the name of Benazir Bhutto, former PPP chairperson who was assassinated on December 27 in Rawalpindi, due to her unprecedented sacrifices for democracy and Pakistan.

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