A month after Pakistan's Supreme Court observed that the conviction of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the result of a mistrial, his grandson and ex-foreign minister Bilawal Zardari Bhutto has said that the time had come to introduce judicial reforms.

Last month, Pakistan's Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa-led Supreme Court bench concluded that Pakistan People's Party (PPP) founder Bhutto's conviction in 1979 was the result of a mistrial.

The hearing was based on a special case sent in 2011 by then President Asif Ali Zardari to the Supreme Court to revisit his father-in-law Bhutto's conviction for abetment in a murder case and his eventual hanging in 1979.

Addressing party workers and supporters at an Iftar on Thursday in Larkana district on the occasion of the 45th death anniversary of the late Bhutto, Bilawal said that the PPP would ask the new federal government to undertake such judicial reforms.

"It is time to initiate judicial reforms. The PPP will ask the federal government to undertake these reforms,” the PPP chairman told the gathering.

“We want to provide speedy justice to the people. We want to fulfil our promise,” Bilawal, the PPP chairman was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune newspaper.