On the fourth of April, exactly forty-five years ago in 1979, an unsuccessful attempt was made to extinguish a shining star from the political horizon of Pakistan. The dark forces of that era were assuming that the voice of the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, would be silenced forever and the chapter of his political party, Pakistan Peoples Party, would never ever be opened again at any cost.

But today, despite four and a half decades, Bhutto is an unforgettable hero who sacrificed his precious life for the sake of empowering the people of Pakistan and strengthening democracy in the larger national interest.

When I entered parliamentary politics twenty-two years ago, I had two great Pakistani political figures in my mind as role models, the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam, who led the most peaceful freedom movement in the history of the world. And Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first........

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