From the window of history
March 18, 1978
When Lahore and the court sentenced Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to death
Zulfiqar Qadri
This story begins in Multan on the night of November 10, 1974, when Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was exposed to public engagements at a palace-shaped bungalow of Governor Nawab Sadiq Hussain Qureshi in Multan, at that very moment. Military Secretary Lieutenant General Imtiaz said something to him. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto said that it was a condition of cigar pouring into ash tree! Oh! No very sad on the other hand Ahmed Raza Kasuri, a member of the National Assembly elected from the constituency of Pakistan Peoples Party at the same time in Lahore, was known by his father Nawab Mohammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri, who was known for his freedom movement during the British rule. And the armed revolutionaries were fighting against Bhatt Singh and his associates, that Nawab Mohammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri, the magistrate who had signed the block warrants by Bhatt Singh. Ahmed Raza Kasuri was returning from a marriage party with his father Nawab Mohammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri overnight when unknown gunmen opened fire on his vehicle at Shah Jamal Chowk of Shadman Colony, in which National Assembly member Ahmed Raza Kasuri's father. Nawab Mohammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri was seriously injured. He was taken to United Christian Hospital Lahore, but he could not recover the wounds and died at the hospital. Ahmed Raza Kasuri on the FIR of his father's assassination on Firah Era Thani when the prime minister came in front of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to explain to the SHO, but the SP went to Lahore. Immediately after the arrival of the Punjab, the Chief Minister of Punjab, Mian Muhammad Hanif Rami was alerted, who then briefed the Prime Minister's Military Secretary, Lt. Gen. Imtiaz, who in Multan made the Prime Minister aware of the situation. Immediately, I ordered the IG Punjab to cut FRI's FIR at his will. What did Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti know that it was the FIR that he was defending against, that the FIR would be the cause of his impeachment. A tribunal headed by Justice Shafiur Rahman of the Lahore High Court was also constituted for the murder of Nawab Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri, but Justice Shafiur Rahman entered the case office, declaring the case a "blind murderer".
On July 5, 1977, when General Zia established a military martial law over the country, it closed the closed case. Famous Federal Security Force Director General Masood Mahmood, Director Operations Mian Abbas, Inspector Ghulam Hussein, Inspector Arshad Iqbal, ASI Rana Iftikhar and Sufi Ghulam Mustafa were formally arrested in this case. On September 3, 1977, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Shaheed was arrested from 70 Clifton, but on September 13, 1977, Justice KM Samadani of Lahore High Court released Bhatti Sahib on bail. On September 17, 1977, Bhatti Sahib was arrested from Al Murtaza House on Eid night and first shifted to Sukkur Central Jail and later from Karachi Central Jail to Kot Lakpat Jail, Lahore. Zia's government, pursuing the constitution and the law, sent the case of Bhatt Sahib directly to the District Sessions Judge, not directly to the Lahore High Court Chief Justice Maulvi Mushtaq, who rejected Bhatt's bail and set up a five-member bench headed by Chief Justice Moulavi Mushtaq. , Which included Justice Aftab Hussein, Justice Zakiuddin, Justice Gul Baz Khan and Justice MH Qureshi. Bhatti declared the entire case a conspiracy and conspiracy against him. But allegedly by Maulvi Mushtaq General Zia, it was determined that Bhatt Sahib was to be sentenced to death in this case, and so on. Finally, on March 18, 1978, a five-member bench headed by Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court Moulav Mushtaq, along with Bhatt Sahib, Mian Abbas, Arshad Iqbal, Sufi Ghulam Mustafa and Rana Iftikhar were sentenced to death in the Nawab Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri case. The witnesses were acquitted by FSF Director General Masood Mahmood and Inspector Ghulam Hussein from the case.
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