Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto: The life and times of Benazir Bhutto

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The life and times of Benazir Bhutto

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Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀٽو, Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو, IPA (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state,having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan's first and to date only female prime minister. Bhutto was the eldest child of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani of Sindhi descent and Shia Muslim by faith, and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, a Pakistani of Iranian-Kurdish descent, similarly Shia Muslim by faith. Her paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, who came to Larkana District in Sindh before the independence from his native town of Bhatto Kalan, in the Indian state of Haryana. Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister for the first time in 1988 at the age of 35, but was removed from office 20 months later under the order of then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993 she was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on similar charges, this time by President Farooq Leghari. She went into self-imposed exile in Dubai in 1998. Bhutto returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007, after reaching an understanding with President Pervez Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. She was assassinated on 27 December 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008 where she was a leading opposition candidate. The following year she was named one of seven winners of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. Some Improtant figures 12th and 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan In office 19 October 1993 – 5 November 1996 President Wasim Sajjad Farooq Leghari Preceded by Moeen Qureshi Succeeded by Malik Meraj Khalid In office 2 December 1988 – 6 August 1990 President Ghulam Ishaq Khan Preceded by Muhammad Khan Junejo Succeeded by Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi Born June 21, 1953(1953-06-21) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan Died December 27, 2007 (aged 54) Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan Political party Pakistan Peoples Party Spouse Asif Ali Zardari Children Bilawal, Bakhtwar and Aseefa Alma mater Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Radcliffe College, Harvard University Religion Islam Website benazirbhutto.org

Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto

Friday, February 20, 2009

The life and times of Benazir Bhutto

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