RESIDENTS AND PRIME MINISTERS 1971-1973

How successful were the policies of Zulfikar Ali Bhutoo?
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto(1971-77)
On 20 December 1971, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became President and Chief Martial Law Administrator. Pakistan was at a very low ebb. The army had received a ‘shock’ defeat in a war against India. East Pakistan had seceded and the country was still under martial law. The 1970 election, however, had given the Pakistan peoples arty an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly . Bhutto now intended to use that majority to introduce radical measures to bring about changes in Pakistan. First he had to establish himself in power.