Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928 to 1979) was a Pakistani barrister and statesman who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as the ninth prime minister from 1973 until his overthrow in 1977. He was the founder and first chairman of the Pakistan People's Party from 1967 until his execution in 1979. Born in Sindh and educated at the University of Southern California, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Oxford, he trained as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn before entering politics. He held ministries under President Iskandar Mirza and under President Ayub Khan's military rule from 1958, and he became foreign minister in 1963.