ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday requested the Supreme Court to order the live-streaming of a long-pending presidential reference seeking to revisit the 1979 controversial death sentence awarded to the party’s founder and former prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa, a nine-judge SC bench will take up the reference on today (Tuesday).
In his application, Mr Bhutto-Zardari stated that his grandfather was hanged, but his ideology remained.
“The case is a blot not just on the history of the family but a wretched stain on the entire judicial system of Pakistan and remains so till date,” the application said.
Earlier, a similar request was made by former law minister Babar Awan in 2011 on behalf of then president Asif Ali Zardari to allow at least one camera to video-record the entire court proceedings in a similar fashion as was done in the O.J. Simpson murder trial held by the US superior court and the Nuremberg trials.
Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2023
