• The 9-member larger bench of  SC will hear presidential reference.
• Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa will head larger bench.
• President Asif Zardari filed reference in SC regarding execution of ZA Bhutto.

KARACHI: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has fixed a presidential reference about the founder of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s judicial murder for hearing on December 12.

The 9-member larger bench of the Supreme Court will hear the presidential reference on December 12.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa will head the larger bench.

In the larger bench, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Aminuddin Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel, Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Hasan Ali Rizvi and Justice Musrrat Hilali are part of the larger bench.

It should be remembered that in 2011, the People’s Party government, through the then President Asif Ali Zardari, filed a reference in the Supreme Court regarding the execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

At that time, Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry formed an 11-member larger bench under his chairmanship, which conducted six hearings of the case from January 3, 2012, to November 12, 2012, but did not give any decision.

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Now, after a long lapse of almost 11 years, the reference is set for re-hearing.