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Benazir Bhutto, 2004.
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| Date of birth | 21 June 1953 | | Place of birth | Karachi, Sindh Province, West-Pakistan | | Date of death | 27 December 2007(age 54) | | Place of death | Rawalpindi Punjab Province, Pakistan | | Resting place | Zulfikar Bhutto Mausoleum at Gardhi Khuda Bux, in Larkana District. | | Birth name | Benazir Bhutto | | Citizenship | Pakistan | | Nationality | Pakistani | | Political party | Pakistan Peoples Party | | Spouse | Asif Ali Zardari(1987 � 2007) | | Children | Bilawal
Bakhtawar
Asifa | | Alma mater | Radcliffe College, Harvard University
(B.A. (Hons) )
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
(M.Sc.)
St Catherine's College, Oxford
(M.A.) | | Occupation | Politician | | Profession | Diplomat, economist. | | Religion | Islam | | Notable Awards | U.N. Prize for Human Rights | | In office | 19 October, 1993 - 5 November, 1996 | | Succeeded by | Malik Meraj Khalid (Acting) | | Preceded by | Moin-ud-din Qureshi (Acting) | | In office | 2 December, 1988 - 6 August, 1990 | | Succeeded by | Ghulam Mustafa Jatoie (Acting) | | Preceded by | General Zia-ul-Haque | | In office | 17 February, 1997 - 12 October, 1999 | | President | Rafique Tarrar
Wasim Sajjad
Farooq Leghari
| | Prime minister | Navaz Sharif | | In office | 6 November 1990 - 18 April 1993 | | President | Wasim Sajjad
Farooq Leghari
| | Prime minister | Navaz Sharif | | In office | 26 January, 1994 - 10 October, 1996 | | Succeeded by | Navaid Qamar | | Preceded by | Syed Babar Ali (Acting) | | In office | 4 December, 1988 - 6 August, 1990 | | President | Ghulam Ishaq Khan | | Prime minister | Navaz Sharif
Mustafa Jatoie (Acting) | | Succeeded by | Ghous Ali-Shah | | Preceded by | Mahmood Haro-on (Acting) | | In office | 12 November 1982 - 27 December 2007
Acting until 10 January 1984 | | Serving with Aftab Ahmed Scherpao, SVP | | Succeeded by | Asif Ali Zardari
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari | | Preceded by | Nusrat Isphanie Bhutto |
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Benazir Bhutto ( ; , -hnsbeːnəˈziːr ˈbʱʊʈʈoːpron; 21 June 1953 � 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani woman socialist-democratic politician who was the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan, and also the 3rd chairwoman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)- a democratic socialist, centre-left, and the largest political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms (1988 � 1990; 1993 � 1996). She was Pakistan's first and to date only female prime minister and was the eldest child of former Prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and former First Lady of Pakistan Nusrat Bhutto, and was the wife of current President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari.
Noted for her charismatic authority and political astuteness, Benazir Bhutto took initiatives for Pakistan's economy, national security, and adhered capitalism policies for the industrial development. Benazir disbanded her father's nationalization policies and replaced with privatization in an attempt to improve the economy. Many of the industries that brought under the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1970s were privatized by her government during her first government. 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 conservative President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of alleged corruption. However, Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Peoples Party won the 1993 parliamentary elections and was sworned as Prime minister. A serious coup d'état was attempted by the senior officers of Pakistan Army, however, the M.I. led by Major-General Ali Kuli Khan exposed the culprits behind this plot. In retaliation, Benazir Bhutto ordered the trial and the dissidents were detained in the military jails by her government. After this attempt, her term was cut short and her government was dismissed in 1996 on similar corruption charges, this time by her party's own hand-picked and elected President Farooq Leghari. Bhutto again participated and campaigned in the 1997 Parliamentary elections, but was defeated in by a large-scale margin by the conservative leader Navaz Sharif. As wake of this elections, Benazir Bhutto departed from Pakistan and went into self-imposed exile in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 1998.
After 9 years of self-exile, Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan on October 18, 2007, after having reached an understanding with Military President General Pervez Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007, after departing a PPP's last rally in the city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008 in which 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.
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