Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. (born 1 August 1990) is a Pakistani visual artist, politician, and human-rights activist. Born and raised in Syria by his Lebanese mother Ghinwa Bhutto, he is a member of the Bhutto family; and is the son of Murtaza Bhutto and a grandson of his namesake, former Pakistani president and prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto lives in Karachi, Pakistan, and is active in politics.

Life, family, and career Bhutto was born on 1 August 1990 into the Sindhi Bhutto family in Damascus, Syria. He is the son of Murtaza Bhutto, a politician who was assassinated when he was six years old, and Ghinwa Bhutto, who leads the Pakistan Peoples Party of Shaheed Bhutto. Bhutto was named after his grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister and President of Pakistan, and is the only male inherent of the Bhutto's family. He has two undergraduate degrees from the University of Edinburgh.

Bhutto has worked on creative projects such as Mussalmaan Musclemen (2017), The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience (2018), The Alif Series (2019), and Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth (2019). In 2015, he exhibited an artworks titled ‘The Shrine’, which dealt with the subject of marginalized minorities in Pakistan through photo manipulation, portraiture and conceptual art.

He is known for his performance art and drag performances. Artist and designer Hushidar Mortezaie has worked with Bhutto and designed some of his performance costumes. Additionally, writer Mohammed Hanif withdrew from the Goethe Institute conference.