Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928-1979) was a premier political in Pakistan who was the fourth President of that nation from 1971 to 1973 and the ninth Prime Minister, serving from 1973 to 1977. He founded the PPP, Pakistan's Peoples Party, the most important political party within Pakistan. Bhutto had an international education, starting at the University of California, Berkeley, for his undergraduate degree and Oxford for his graduate degree. Bhutto was involved in Pakistani politics nearly from its inception and was foreign minister in 1962, which indicated a swift right to power.