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Benazir Bhutto[a] (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto (Urdu: بینظیر بھُٹو کا قتل) took place on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan and then-leader of the opposition party Pakistan People's Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008.
Oct 8, 2024 · Benazir Bhutto (born June 21, 1953, Karachi, Pakistan—died December 27, 2007, Rawalpindi) was a Pakistani politician who became the first woman leader of a Muslim nation in modern history. She served two terms as prime minister of Pakistan, in 1988–90 and 1993–96.
Dec 27, 2017 · Benazir Bhutto was the first woman to lead a Muslim country. The decade since an assassin killed her has revealed more about how Pakistan works than it has about who actually...
Nov 9, 2009 · Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) was the first democratically elected female leader of a Muslim country during a tumultuous life that ended with her assassination.
Jun 21, 2016 · She returned to the United States 16 years later, in 1989, not as Pinky but as Benazir Bhutto, the new prime minister of Pakistan — the first woman elected to lead an Islamic country.
President Pervez Musharraf called the attacks a "conspiracy against democracy". [5]Benazir Bhutto: "It is dignitaries of the former regime of General Zia who are today behind the extremism and the fanaticism." [12]Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's husband: "I blame the government for these blasts.It is the work of the intelligence agencies." [13]Fatima Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto's niece: "She insisted on this grand show, she bears a responsibility for these deaths and for these injuries." [14]
Feb 5, 2021 · At around 1 a.m. on 27 December 2007 Benazir Bhutto was told someone would try to kill her that day. The warning came from no lesser a source than the director general of Pakistan’s main intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Benazir Bhutto, (born June 21, 1953, Karachi, Pak.—died Dec. 27, 2007, Rawalpindi), Pakistani politician, the first woman leader of a Muslim nation in modern history.
May 3, 2013 · Benazir Bhutto followed her father into politics and both of them died because of it - he was executed in 1979 and she fell victim to an apparent suicide bomb attack.
