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Benazir Bhutto (Impact Biographies Series)

Benazir Bhutto (Changing Our World Series)

Waiting for Allah, Penguin Books Ltd

Biography of Benazir Bhutto, W.H. Allen

Benazir Bhutto: Prime Minister (Library of Famous Women)

Trial and Error: The Advent and Eclipse of Benazir Bhutto,

Benazir Hukoomat: Phela Daur, Kia Khoya, Kia Paya?

Benazir Bhutto (Women in Politics)

Inside Pakistan's Military Economy

Pakistan Peoples Party Ali Bhutto To Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan Zia to Benazir

Benazir Bhutto Foreign Policy A study of Pakistans Relation with Major Powers

Benazir Bhutto Foreign Policy A study of Pakistans Relation with Major Powers

Benazir Bhutto Front Page Lives

Women and Politics In Islam Trail of Benazir

Bhutto se Benazir Tak Siyasi Tajziye

Benazir Bhutto From Presion To Prime Minister

Civil Militry Relation in Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto Female Muslim Leader

Benazir Bhutto Pakistani Priminister and Activities

Duaghter of Destiny: An Auto Biography

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West

Life In a Brief

Benazir Bhutto was born on Sunday, June 21, 1953 in Karachi and she was a famous head of state from Pakistan of Muslim religion.

Life in Brief:

- Being born on Jun 21, Benazir was a Gemini.
- her ethnicity: Asian/Indian.
- her mother's name: Begum Nusrat Bhutto.
- her father's name: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
- Brother : Mir Murtaza.

She attended the Harvard University.

Benazir dated Asif Ali Zardari (husband).

She died on Thursday, December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi; cause of death: assassination.

Famous Why : Former prime minister of Pakistan.

Biography

Benazir Bhutto
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto Date of birth: June 21, 1953

Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi, Pakistan to a prominent political family. At age 16 she left her homeland to study at Harvard's Radcliffe College. After completing her undergraduate degree at Radcliffe she studied at England's Oxford University, where she was awarded a second degree in 1977.

Later that year she returned to Pakistan where her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had been elected prime minister, but days after her arrival, the military seized power and her father was imprisoned. In 1979 he was hanged by the military government of General Zia Ul Haq.

Bhutto herself was also arrested many times over the following years, and was detained for three years before being permitted to leave the country in 1984. She settled in London, but along with her two brothers, she founded an underground organization to resist the military dictatorship. When her brother died in 1985, she returned to Pakistan for his burial, and was again arrested for participating in anti-government rallies.

She returned to London after her release, and martial law was lifted in Pakistan at the end of the year. Anti-Zia demonstrations resumed and Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in April 1986. The public response to her return was tumultuous, and she publicly called for the resignation of Zia Ul Haq, whose government had executed her father.

She was elected co-chairwoman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) along with her mother, and when free elections were finally held in 1988, she herself became Prime Minister. At 35, she was one of the youngest chief executives in the world, and the first woman to serve as prime minister in an Islamic country.

Only two years into her first term, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed Bhutto from office. She initiated an anti-corruption campaign, and in 1993 was re-elected as Prime Minister. While in office, she brought electricity to the countryside and built schools all over the country. She made hunger, housing and health care her top priorities, and looked forward to continuing to modernize Pakistan.

At the same time Bhutto faced constant opposition from the Islamic fundamentalist movement. Her brother Mir Murtaza, who had been estranged from Benazir since their father's death, returned from abroad and leveled charges of corruption at Benazir's husband, Asif Ali Zardari. Mir Murtaza died when his bodyguard became involved in a gunfight with police in Karachi. The Pakistani public was shocked by this turn of events and PPP supporters were divided over the charges against Zardari.

In 1996 President Leghari of Pakistan dismissed Bhutto from office, alleging mismanagement, and dissolved the National Assembly. A Bhutto re-election bid failed in 1997, and the next elected government was overthrown by the military. Her husband was imprisoned, and once again Benazir Bhutto was forced to leave her homeland. For ten years, she and her children lived in exile in London, where she continued to advocate the restoration of democracy in Pakistan. Her successor as Prime Minister was expelled within hours of an attempted return from exile. Nevertheless, in the autumn of 2007, she announced plans to return to her native country. Although the standing government claims the right to prosecute her if she returns, Benazir Bhutto plans to lead her party in the next election.

Ms. Bhutto was assassinated at a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan December 27, 2007. She was shot in the chest and neck. 14 others were killed in a near simultaneous suicide bombing.