Verdict on Zulfikar Case: 44 years after the hanging of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the Supreme Court has held the order under which he was hanged to death as wrong. The court said that at that time the power was in the hands of the dictator, when a judge takes oath for the dictator then the courts are no longer for the people. In this decision of the court, it has been said that at that time the courts bowed down before the military rule.
Actually, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s son-in-law and Pakistan’s President Asif Zardari had filed a petition in the Supreme Court about 10 years ago. The Supreme Court has given its verdict on this. Zardari had pointed out the shortcomings in Bhutto’s case in the petition and asked whether the Supreme Court can reconsider the 1979 decision under which Bhutto was sentenced to death. Pakistan’s Supreme Court has admitted that Zulfikar Bhutto did not get a fair trial.
The Supreme Court gave a 48-page judgment
Pakistan’s Supreme Court issued a 48-page order on Monday. It said that Zulfikar should be convicted in order to enable Zia-ul-Haq to continue with the power he had usurped. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was not only the Prime Minister and President of the country, but he was also the founder of Pakistan People’s Party. Bhutto was sentenced to death in a murder case.
Zia ul Haq’s wish is the law of the country- Supreme Court
Pakistan’s Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa has said in his order that the trial court and the appellate court which convicted Bhutto were working at a time when there was no constitutional rule in the country. At that time the wish of one person (Zia ul Haq) was the law of the country. The judge said that Zia ul Haq was the only beneficiary of the previous decision of the court, if Bhutto was acquitted, he could have tried General Zia ul Haq for the crime of treason. The order also said that at that time the trial and appellate courts were not true courts under the Constitution, the country was a slave to martial law.
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