ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday termed the Supreme Court’s opinion on Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s reference as historic and expressed hope that it would help Pakistan progress on all fronts.
Speaking to the media after the announcement of the Supreme Court’s opinion, he said that history would be rectified after 44 years.
Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, a nine-judge bench recently took up an application filed in April 2011 on behalf of former President Asif Ali Zardari seeking an opinion under the Supreme Court’s advisory jurisdiction to review the death sentence awarded to the PPP founder.
After the nine-member panel shared its verdict, Bilawal said the court recognized that Bhutto had not received a fair trial.
He believed that it was difficult for ordinary people to trust the judicial system when a popular leader like Bhutto could not
Justice.
Meanwhile, in a post on X, Bilawal said the SC opinion came “44 years after the judicial assassination and more than 12 years after the presidential reference was made”. “The pursuit of justice was a labor of love by (former) President Asif Ali Zardari on behalf of his wife Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. Our family has been waiting for these words for 3 generations.”
