Witness History: Witness Archive 2016 - The Execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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On April 4th 1979 Pakistan's first democratically elected Prime Minister was hanged at a jail in Rawalpindi. He'd been overthrown in a military coup almost 2 years earlier. Hear from the officer who ran that jail, and watched over Mr Bhutto during the last year of his life.

Photo: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 10 years before his death - in 1969. Credit: BBC.

Published on Monday, 4th April 2016.

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