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'''Murtaza Bhutto''' born '''Mir Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto''' (18 September 1954 – 20 September 1996), was a son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, and a Pakistani politician.<ref>[http://www.najamsethi.com/murtaza-bhuttos-dilemma/ Sethi, Najam: The Dilemma of Murtaza Bhutto, The Friday Times, (1993)]</ref><ref>[http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/raja+anwar/the+terrorist+prince/5493636/ Anwar, Raja: The Terrorist Prince ]</ref><ref>[http://www.historyofpia.com/hijackings.htm History of PIA: Hijackings]</ref><ref>[http://blog.dawn.com/2010/04/09/al-zulfikar-the-unsaid-history/ al-Zufikar, the Unsaid History, DAWN 2010]</ref>[1][2] He organised al-Zulfiqar after his father was deposed and hanged in 1979 by the military regime of General Zia-ul-Haq. He went exile and was sentenced to death in his absentia by a military tribunal.
In 1993, he returned to Pakistan and was arrested for terrorism on his sister's order, then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Released on bail, he successfully contested elections to the Sindh Provincial Assembly, becoming a vocal critic of Benazir and her husband Asif Ali Zardari. On 20 September 1996, he was shot dead along with six others in a police encounter near his home in Karachi.<ref>[http://tribune.com.pk/story/439575/death-anniversary-16-years-since-murtaza-bhutto-was-killed/ Mir Murtaza was shot dead by the police in 1996 on his way home in Karachi.]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7162565.stm BBC – Bhuttos: Cursed dynasty]</ref>
==See also==
*[[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]
*[[Benazir Bhutto]]
==References==
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==External links==
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhutto, Murtaza}}
[[Category:Assassinated Pakistani politicians]]
In 1993, he returned to Pakistan and was arrested for terrorism on his sister's order, then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Released on bail, he successfully contested elections to the Sindh Provincial Assembly, becoming a vocal critic of Benazir and her husband Asif Ali Zardari. On 20 September 1996, he was shot dead along with six others in a police encounter near his home in Karachi.<ref>[http://tribune.com.pk/story/439575/death-anniversary-16-years-since-murtaza-bhutto-was-killed/ Mir Murtaza was shot dead by the police in 1996 on his way home in Karachi.]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7162565.stm BBC – Bhuttos: Cursed dynasty]</ref>
==See also==
*[[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]
*[[Benazir Bhutto]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhutto, Murtaza}}
[[Category:Assassinated Pakistani politicians]]