Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. He was born in 1928 in British India and received education and a law degree from universities in India, the US, and the UK. Bhutto had a political career serving in the cabinets of Ayub Khan beginning in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, he founded the Pakistan People's Party and was elected Prime Minister in 1970. However, he was overthrown in a military coup in 1977 and later tried and executed in 1979 at the age of 51.