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The Execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
On April 4th 1979 Pakistan's first democratically elected Prime Minister was hanged at a jail in Rawalpindi. He'd been overthrown by the military two years earlier.
On April 4th 1979 Pakistan's first democratically elected Prime Minister was hanged at a jail in Rawalpindi. He'd been overthrown in a military coup almost 2 years earlier. Hear from the officer who ran that jail, and watched over Mr Bhutto during the last year of his life.
Photo: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 10 years before his death - in 1969. Credit: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.
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