Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founder and former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s 39th death anniversary is being observed countrywide on Wednesday. 4 years after being sworn in as the prime minister in 1973, Bhutto was removed from power on July 5, 1977 by General Zia ul-Haque. He was sent to jail in the Mahmood Ali Kasuri murder case, filed by Kasuri’s son, lawyer and politician Ahmad Raza Kasuri. And he was finally sentenced to death in a 4-3 split decision of Supreme Court. Here is a timeline of the life and times of one of the most significant figures in Pakistan’s political history.