Sindh National Front
Which party was Mumtaz Bhutto a member of from 1989 to 2018?
Mumtaz Bhutto Mumtaz Ali Khan Bhutto ( , ) ( born 28 November 1933 ) , is a Pakistani politician who has served as 8th Governor of Sindh and later the 13th Chief Minister of Sindh . He is also the first cousin of former Prime Minister , Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto . Early life . Mumtaz Ali Bhutto was born on 28 November 1933 in the village of Pir Bux Bhutto , Larkana District , Sindh , British Raj . Before partition his father Nawab Nabi Bux Khan Bhutto was a member of the legislative assembly and had a strong political background . Education . Bhutto attended St Georges College in Mussoorie and then Lawrence College , Murree , after independence of Pakistan . He got his barrister degree from Lincolns Inn , and undergraduate and masters degrees in 1959 from Oxford University in the United Kingdom . Political career . Bhutto became a member of the National Assembly at the age of 32 years on 5 March 1965 . When he and his cousin Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announced for a new political party Pakistan Peoples Party PPP on 30 March 1967 , he also became the founding member and principal executive committee member of the party . He and his cousin Zulfikar Ali Bhutto fought the election of 17 March 1970 against Muhammad Ayub Khuhro and Qazi Fazlullah Ubaidullah . He got a victory against Qazi Fazalullah . His cousin , Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Pakistan and Mumtaz Ali Bhutto became Governor of Sindh on 24 December 1971 , then Chief Minister of Sindh Province on 1 May 1972 . His cousin always used to call him a talented cousin . Citing differences with Asif Ali Zardari , Bhutto split from Pakistan Peoples Party and created his own party , Sindh National Front in 1989 . In 2017 , he merged SNF with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf . Chief Minister . As a Chief Minister , he announced Sindhi language as the official language of the Province . Sindhi Language Bill , 1972 was introduced by the Chief Minister Mumtaz Bhutto on July 3 , 1972 , in the Sindh Assembly , Pakistan . The 1972 Language violence in Sindh occurred starting on July 7 , 1972 , when the Sindh Assembly passed The Sind Teaching , Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language Bill , 1972 which established Sindhi language as the sole official language of the province resulting in language violence in Sindh . Due to the clashes , Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , compromised and announced that Urdu and Sindhi will both be official languages of Sindh . The making of Sindhi as an equal language to Urdu for official purposes frustrated the Urdu-speaking people as they did not speak the Sindhi language . On 7 March 1977 he won a National Assembly seat and became a Federal Minister . In the year of 1977 , his cousin nominated him as president of PPP.Sindh . He was arrested during the struggle against the arrest of his cousin and then exiled by General Zias government . On 31 March 1985 he announced for a new political Alliance named Sindhi Baloch Pushtoon Front at London to propagate ethnic nationalism in Pakistan . He also announced support for a new constitutional framework for Pakistan as a weak federation . 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 Bhutto . Criticisms of Asif Zardari . Mumtaz Bhutto has been a critic of Asif Ali Zardari who he accuses of corruption and usurping the Pakistan Peoples Party by the using the Bhutto family name to gain power .