Ahmed Raza Kasuri is a former Pakistani politician and lawyer who is infamously known for his involvement in the murder case that led to the excution of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.^[1]

Although a long-time member of the Pakistan People's Party, he rebelled against the regime of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The assassination of Kasuri's father in 1975 prompted Kasuri to accuse Bhutto of organising an attempted assassination against him. The Kasuri murder case caused Bhutto's popularity to plummett. Despite his allegations against Bhutto, Mr. Kasuri rejoined the party and contested the 1977 elections on a PPP ticket. It is generally portrayed that after Bhutto's ouster Kasuris case against Bhutto was used as a pretext by General Zia ul Haq to charge Bhutto with murder, but the reality is not so. Kasuri's case was closed during the Bhutto regime, but after Bhutto was ousted, the Mother of Ahmed Raza Kasuri re-opened the case against Bhutto, which is a clear evidence that General Zia-ul-Haq had no involvement whatsoever in the re-opening of the case.^[2] Bhutto was executed in 1979, subsequently Kasuri remained associated with Tehrik-e-Istiqlal for a period of time before withdrawing from politics. He briefly joined Tehrik-e-insaf of Imran Khan prior to the 2002 general elections and contested (and lost) from Rawalpindi. He is presently an advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a mainstream political party in Pakistan. ... Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Urdu: ذوالفقار علی بھٹو, Sindhi: ذوالفقار علي ڀُٽو) (January 5, 1928 – April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as the Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977. ... Imran Khan (Urdu/Pashto: عمران احمد خان نیازی) (Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi; son of Ikram Ullah Khan Niazi Shermankhel) born November 25, 1952, in Mianwali is an Oxbridge educated Pakistani former cricketer turned politician and philanthropist. ... Rawalpindi (Urdu: راولپنڈی) is a city in the Potwar Plateau near Pakistans capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. ...

He became increasingly prominent in 2007 when he joined the governments prosecution of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.^[3] Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (Urdu: ) (born 12 December 1948) became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2005. ...

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