Maulvi Mushtaq Hussain

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Maulvi Mushtaq Hussain was a Pakistani jurist who served as chief justice of the high court of Lahore. He played a controversial role in pronouncing former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto guilty of murder and ordering his death. He was suspected of having close links to Zia-ul-Haq, who deposed Bhutto in 1977.