Interesting info on Pakistan’s judicial history.
the murder case in which former prime minister and PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was sentenced to death. The seven-member bench in its controversial judgment sent Mr Bhutto to the gallows by a majority decision of four to three.
They were Chief Justice Anwarul Haq, Justice Malik Akram, who was the father of Attorney General Malik Qayyum, Justice Karam Ali Chohan and Justice Nasim Hassan Shah.
one judge each from Sindh and the NWFP were cleverly removed from the Supreme Court bench that was to decide the case against Mr Bhutto. One was Justice Waheeduddin Ahmad, father of Justice (Retd) Wajihuddin Ahmad, who has been nominated by the lawyers’ community to challenge President General Musharraf in the presidential election. Justice Waheeduddin was admitted to hospital in controversial circumstances and withdrawn from the Supreme Court bench.