21st June 1953 - 27th December 2007

Above: Benazir Bhutto with Father Zulfkar Ali Bhutto ( Zulfkar Ali Bhutto Pakistani politician who was President of Pakistan from 1971 - 1973 and served as Prime Minister from 1973 - 1977)

• She chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party, this was and is a center left political party.
• First elected woman leader of a Muslim state, at the age of 35.
• She has been Prime Minister of Pakistan twice 1988-1990 and also 1993 -1996.
• Father was Zulfkar Ali Bhutto. He was descended from the Pakistani Sandhi line and of the Shia Muslim faith. Begum Nursat Bhutto was her mother, she was of Iranian Kurdish descent.
• Removed from office 20 months after she was elected under alleged corruption charges by then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan, she was also removed under similar charges on her second elected term by then President Farooq Leghari.
• She went into self imposed exile in Dubai in 1998.
• Granted a pardon from the current President Pervez Musharraf, all corruption charges were witdrawan.
• She was the leading opposition leader running for elections in Pakistan’s general election in 2008.
• Assasinated on 27th December close to the city of Islamabad in a city called Rawalpindi, this was less than 2 weeks till the January 2008 elections.

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