Supreme court to review presidential reference on Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s sentence tomorrow

ISLAMABAD : The Supreme Court of Pakistan is set to hear the presidential reference concerning the sentence of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

A nine-member larger bench, led by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and including Justices Sardar Tariq Masood, Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Yahya Afridi, Amin Ud Din Khan, Jamal Khan Mandokhel, Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, and Musarrat Hilali, will preside over the hearing.

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The reference was filed by the PPP government in 2011 through the then president Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of the party. The reference seeks to revisit the controversial trial and conviction of Bhutto, who was hanged in 1979 on charges of conspiracy to murder a political opponent.