Ahmed Raza Kasuri

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Ahmed Raza Kasuri is a former Pakistani politician and lawyer who was the main culprit in the judicial murder case that led to the execution of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.[1]. His father was killed in their car next to him (allegedly on Bhutto's orders) in the early 1970s with bullets meant for him instead. He famously brought his father's bloodstained clothes to the National Assembly and vowed revenge. In spite of these actions he later accepted a parliamentary ticket from Bhutto.

Kasuri remained associated with an unknown political party Tehrik-e-Istiqlal for a period of time before withdrawing from politics. He is presently an advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

He became prominent in 2007 when he joined the government's prosecution of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.[2] when Kasuri reached in front of Supreme Court for a case hearing on September 24, 2007 in the morning, Khurshid Ahmad, a lawyer belonging to NWFP province, spray painted his face black. Khurshid Ahmad later told the media that he did it because Kasuri was continuously abusing the legal community.

Following, the spray-painting of his face, Kasuri once again faded into obscurity.

His father was knighted by the British for , among other things, sanctioning the death sentence of Shaheed Bhagat Singh.

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  1. ^ Manzooruddin Ahmad, op. cit., P-16, 17
  2. ^ Hearing of CJ petition against presidential reference adjourned. After a particularly distasteful outburst from Kasuri on "The Great Debate" on GEO TV at 1905hrs at GEO TV on September 23, 2007,<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e-4I6cT6dA Appearance on ''The Great Debate'' on Geo TV, September 23, 2007]</li></ol></ref>

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