Pakistan People’s Party has moved the Supreme Court for live telecast of a hearing on a presidential reference against former prime ministerZulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s death sentence.
A nine-member larger bench of the Supreme Court will take up a long-pending presidential reference seeking to revisit the ‘controversial’ death sentence awarded to former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto today (December 12).
The plea was moved by the PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, stating the narrative of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is still alive despite awarding him a death sentence in 1979. The PPP chairman has requested the apex court for a live telecast of the hearing. On April 2, 2011, then-president Asif Ali Zardari approached the apex court through a presidential reference to seek its opinion on revisiting the trial of the Pakistan People’s Party founder.
