Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged 44 years ago after being convicted of murder, didn't get a fair trial. Bhutto, the founder of the Pakistan People's Party now run by his grandson and former foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, was hanged in 1979 after a trial under the military regime of late General Zia-ul-Haq. "We didn't find that the fair-trial and due-process requirements were met," Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa said after a unanimous decision by a nine-member bench headed by him.
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