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Benazir
Bhutto
 Benazir
Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a
Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan
Peoples Party (PPP), a 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
was Pakistan's first and to date only female prime
minister.
Benazir Bhutto was the eldest child of former
prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani of
Sindhi descent and Shia Muslim by faith, and Begum
Nusrat Bhutto, a Pakistani of Iranian-Kurdish
descent, similarly Shia Muslim by faith. Her
paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto,
who came to Larkana District in Sindh before the
independence from his native town of Bhatto Kalan,
in the Indian state of Haryana.
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 then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on
grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993 she was
re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on
similar charges, this time by President Farooq
Leghari. She went into self-imposed exile in Dubai
in 1998.
Bhutto returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007,
after reaching an understanding with President
Pervez Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty
and all corruption charges were withdrawn. She was
assassinated on 27 December 2007, after departing
a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi,
two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general
election of 2008 where she was a leading
opposition candidate.
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