Shahnawaz Bhutto

Shahnawaz Bhutto (1958 - 1985) was the son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (President
President of Pakistan

The President of Pakistan is the head of state of the Islamic republic of Pakistan. Pakistan has a parliamentary form of government. According to the Constitution of Pakistan, the President is chosen by the Electoral College of Pakistan to serve a five-year term....
/Prime Minister of Pakistan
Prime Minister of Pakistan

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, in Urdu language ???? ???? Wazir-e- Azam meaning "Grand Minister", is the Head of Government of Pakistan....
from 1971 to 1977) and Begum Nusrat Bhutto
Nusrat Bhutto

Begum Nusrat Bhutto is the former First Lady of Pakistan, who was the wife of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. She became her husband's successor as the chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party from 1979-1983....
. Shahnawaz Bhutto was the youngest of Bhutto’s four children. Shahnawaz was schooled in Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
and later travelled abroad to complete his higher education.

Shahnawaz was studying in Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
when Zia ul Haq's military regime executed his father in 1979. Prior to the execution, Shahnawaz and his elder brother Murtaza Bhutto
Murtaza Bhutto

Mir Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto was a Pakistani politician from the powerful Bhutto family, elder son of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the brother of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto....
embarked on an international campaign to save their father's life, but it was to no avail. The two brothers continued to resist the military abrogation of the 1973 constitution in exile.

On July 18 1985, the 27 year old Shahnawaz was found dead in Nice
Nice

Nice is a city in Southern France France located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 1,197,751 inhabitants in the 2007 estimate....
, France
France

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. He died under mysterious circumstances, and the Bhutto family firmly believed he was poisoned. No one was brought to trial for murder, but Shahnawaz's wife Rehana was considered a suspect by the French authorities and remained in their custody for some time. She was found not guilty and later allowed to travel, and went to the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Pakistani media, which was under Zia's control, attributed his death to drug and alcohol abuse.

Shahnawaz is believed to have helped organize a group dedicated to overthrowing the regime of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, through links to Al-Zulfiqar
Al-Zulfiqar

Al-Zulfiqar was a leftist organization of Pakistan. It was formed in the late seventies by the sons of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was also the Chairman of Pakistan's biggest political party, Pakistan Peoples Party....
, increasingly active in Pakistan at that time.

The funeral of Shahnawaz turned into a defiant show of opposition to Zia's military rule. It was held in a Larkana
Larkana

Larkana or Larkano is the fourth largest city located in the Northwest of Sindh Province, Pakistan, located in Larkana District. In August 2000 Larkana celebrated its hundred years of existence....
sports stadium, attended by an estimated 25,000 people.

Shahnawaz's daughter Sassi Bhutto lives with her mother in the United States.