The Pakistan Peoples Party has demanded former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s picture on currency notes.
The Sindh-ruling party made the demand at a seminar in Lahore on former prime minister and PPP’s founding father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
The event concluded with a resolution urging the declaration of ex-PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as a national hero and advocating for his portrait to be featured on currency notes.
In March, the Supreme Court corrected a historic wrong by accepting that the murder trial of Zulfikar was unfair and lacked due process, both at the trial stage and in the endorsement of the verdict by the appellate court.
In March 1979, a seven-judge SC bench had, in a split four-to-three verdict, upheld the LHC’s awarding of a death sentence to the former premier.
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After the Supreme Court’s decision, the assemblies of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan passed a resolution welcoming the Supreme Court’s opinion on the presidential reference and demanding that the federal government officially declare the first elected PM of the country “martyr” and “National Democratic Hero”.
In the resolution, the PPP also demanded that the state should honour Zulfikar with the title of ‘Quaid-e-Awam’ and the country’s highest civil award.
The party also demanded a monument for him and that the state declare his tomb as a “mausoleum”.
