Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – The Rise

  • Education – Bombay, University of California, Oxford, Lincoln’s Inn
  • Barrister, taught international law (University of Southampton – 1952/53)  
  • Law professor – University of Sind (1953-58)
  • 1957 – member, Pakistan’s delegation at UNGA – he was just 29 – President – Iskandar Mirza
  • 1958 – Commerce Minister – under President Ayub Khan
  • 1962 – Deputy Head, Ayub Khan’s Muslim League party
  • 1963 – Foreign Minister – 1966 – resigned – over Tashkent Settlement
  • 1967 – formed Pakistan People’s Party
  • 1968-69 – imprisoned by Ayub khan government
  • 1971 – Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister – President Yahya Khan
  • 20 December 1971 – replaced Yahya Khan as the President of the country
  • 14 August 1973 – Pakistan’s Prime Minister
  • Once called as John F. Kennedy of Asia

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