Clifton Road
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Clifton Road is main street in the Clifton neighbourhood of Saddar Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Its name dates from the British Colonial rule, and its market is posh areas of Karachi. 70 Clifton Road is a famous residence, belonging to late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan in the early 70's which was later used as a sub-jail for his daughter Benazir Bhutto, who later became a prime minister of Pakistan in the late eighties and then in the mid nineties for a second time. Mir Murtaza Bhutto, the elder son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, also lived there and was killed near the main gate of 70 Clifton Road by the police in the late 1990s.
The important landmarks on this road include British and France embassy's. SZABIST a claim to be Non-profit, publicly and privately funded, independently chartered graduate school of science and technology, offering degrees in computer science run by Bhutto family is also located near by.
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