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Benazir Bhutto
was born on June 21 1953 . She was the daughter of former prime minister
and politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 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 received her
very early education from the Lady Jennings Nursery School. After two
years of schooling at the Rawalpindi Presentation Convent, she was sent
to the Jesus and Mary Convent at Murree. She passed her O-level
examinations and then completed her A-Levels at the Karachi Grammar
School. After completing her early education in Pakistan, she went to
USA for her higher education. From 1969 to 1973 she attended Radcliff
College at Harvard University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts
degree with cum laude (an honors) by government. After that her
education took place in the United Kingdom, Between 1973 and 1977 Bhutto
studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall,
Oxford, during which time she completed additional courses in
International Law and Diplomacy. After that she attend St Catherine's
College, Oxford and in December 1976 and she was elected president of
the Oxford Union, and become the first Asian woman to hold such a post).
She than returned to Pakistan after completing her studies and started
her political as well as professional career. On December 18, 1987, she
married Asif Ali Zardari in Karachi. The couple had three children:
Bilawal, Bakhtwar and Aseefa.
She was elected
two time the prime minister of Pakistan and the first woman to rule a
Muslim state, First time she elected in 1988 till 1990 and than in 1993
till 1996 and this time dismissed by Farooq Ali Lagari). After her
dismissal French, Polish, Spanish, and Swiss governments have filed the
cases of corruption against Benazir Bhutto and her husband. They faced a
number of legal proceedings, due to which her husband, Asif Ali Zardari,
spent eight years in prison on similar corruption charges.
She had ran some
campaigns for women's social and health issues, including the issue of
discrimination against women. Bhutto was an active and founding member
of the Council of Women World Leaders. In 2002, Pakistani president
Pervez Musharraf ban prime ministers from holding office of PM for more
than two terms in Government. This disqualified Benazir from ever
holding the office again. On August 3, 2003, Bhutto became a member of
Minhaj ul Quran International.
She came back to
Pakistan on 18 October 2007 after 8 years to prepare for the 2008
national elections and during her journey to her home from Karachi
airport two explosions occurred shortly in which she was bit injured but
safe by the grace of Allah but On December 27, 2007, Bhutto was killed
while leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh,
where she addressed to her party supporters and left the place she
encounter with a suicide bomber and killed. After the assassination
there seen a worst reaction of party worker on roads in which various
peoples were killed and numerous cars were burn in short this day was
considered to be the one of the most worst and horrible day in the
history of pakistan.
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