Chief Minister
As a Chief Minister he announced Sindhi language as the official language of the Province. On 7 March 1977 he won a National Assembly seat and became a Central Minister. In the year of 1977 his cousin nominated him as a president of "PPP.Sindh". He was arrested during the struggle against the arrest of his cousin, and then exiled by General Zia's government. On 31 March 1985 he announced for a new political Alliance named "Sindhi Baloch Pashtoon Front" at London to propagate ethnic nationalism in Pakistan. He also announced support for a new constitutional framework for Pakistan as a weak confederation. He became the convenor of the alliance for Pakistan, returned to Pakistan and once again arrested by the military government of Zia. On 31 March 1989 he called the workers convention at Hyderabad Sindh and announced a new political party named 'Sindh National Front' S.N.F. He was elected to a seat in the provincial assembly from Larkana on 6 October 1993. On 6 November 1996 he became the Chief Minister of Sindh. Now he is the Chairman of S.N.F, which is the largest ethnic nationalist party of Sindh, and also the Chief of the 'Bhutto' community of Pakistan.
He has two sons Ameer Bux Bhutto and Ali Haider Bhutto.
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