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Benazir Bhutto

DOB : 21-06-1953
Date of death: 27-12-2007
Lived For : 53 Years
Star Sign : Gemini
Gender : Male

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Benazir Bhutto was a first woman prime minister in Pakistan. She became the prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990. Again, from 1993 to 1996 she was the prime minister. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on 21st June, 1953, in a wealthy family. Her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was a renowned lawyer and a politician. Her mother’s name was Nushrat Isphani. Her three young siblings are Murtaza, Sanam and Shahanawaz. She married Asif Ali Zardari in 1987, and her three children are Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Bhaktawar and Aseefa. In 1973, she attained a BA degree from Havard University. Then, she joined the University of Oxford to study political science, philosophy and economics.

In 1976, after graduating from Oxford University, she pursued her post-graduation degree in International Law. Her father became the Pakistani leader in 1971. But the military general, Mohammad-Zia-ul-Haq, deposed her father in 1977 and became the chief martial-law administrator. He was executed in 1979 as summoned by the Lahore High Court for murdering Nawab Mohammad Ahmad Khan. Then, Benazir Bhutto became the head of the Pakistani People’s Party. The Mohammad Zia military government often arrested Benazir from 1979 t0 1984. She left Pakistan and fled to the United Kingdom in 1984. She returned to Pakistan in 1986 and won a seat in National Assembly. She became the prime minister of Pakistan in 1988. President Zia died in 1988 unexpectedly in a plane crash. President Ghulam Ishq Khan, who was the president, impeached Benazir Bhutto.

She initiated an anti-corruption campaign then. In 1993, she was again elected as the prime minister. During her rule, she made several attempts to progress women’s rights in Pakistan and supported economic privatization. But Farooq Leghari, the Pakistani President, rejected her as she was not following the constitutional laws. She was a liberal thinker and perhaps could not be confined to the constitutional norms. The Pakistan People’s Party did not win the elections in 1997. Hence she left Pakistan in 1998 and went into an exile for nearly ten years. Then, she returned to Pakistan in 2007 to represent for the 2008 elections. In 2007, during her rally at Rawalpindi, she succumbed to an attack. A 15-year old suicide bomber, Bilal, shot her with a gun, causing a skull fracture. She tried hard to improve relations with foreign countries and attract overseas investment. She instigated various social programs to uplift the status of women in the country.