BENAZIR BHUTTO

•  Benazir Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953, in Karachi, Pakistan
• She served two terms as prime minister of Pakistan, in 1988–90 and in 1993–96.
• Benazir Bhutto's arranged marriage to Asif Zardari in 1987
• She was killed by a suicide bomber in 2007.

Bhutto was the daughter of the politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, She was educated at Harvard University (B.A., 1973) and subsequently studied philosophy, political science, and economics at the University of Oxford (B.A., 1977).
 After her father’s execution in 1979 during the rule of the military dictator Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto became the titular head of her father’s party, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP),She became prime minister on Dec. 1, 1988.
In August 1990 the president of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, dismissed her government on charges of corruption and other malfeasance and called for new elections. Bhutto’s PPP suffered a defeat in the national elections of October 1990.
In elections held in October 1993 the PPP won a plurality of votes, and Bhutto again became head of a coalition government.her government was dismissed in November 1996 by Pres. Farooq Leghari.
The Bhutto-led PPP secured the highest number of votes (28.42%) and won eighty seats (23.16%) in the national assembly during the October 2002 general elections.
After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returned to Karachi on 18 October 2007, to prepare for the 2008 national elections.Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a bombing on 27 December
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