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Execution

Pakistan · Politics / Pakistan Peoples Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1979

Benazir Bhutto4 April 1979

Politics / Pakistan Peoples Party

Despite the accusation being "widely doubted by the public" and despite many clemency appeals from foreign leaders, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is hanged. Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan after completing her studies, is placed under house arrest in the wake of her fathers imprisonment and subsequent execution

Names involved

Benazir Bhutto

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