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Benazir Bhutto

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Benazir Bhutto: The Stormy Life of Benazir Bhutto

 

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Who assassinated ex-Pakistan leader Benazir Bhutto?- BBC News

 

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USA: PAKISTAN'S BENAZIR BHUTTO MEETS PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

 

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Camera Catches Bhutto's Final Moments

 

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Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto Assassinated

Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.
  • Personal 

  • Childhood: 1954–1968 

  • University studies: 1969–1977 

  • Zulfikar's death and Benazir's arrest: 1977–84 

  • Release and self-imposed exile: 1984–87 

  • Electoral campaign: 1988 

  • First term as Prime Minister (1988–90) 

  • Foreign and military policy 

  • India and the nuclear bomb 

  • Dismissal 

  • First term as leader of the opposition (1990–93) 

  • Second term as Prime Minister (1993–96) 

  • Domestic and foreign policy 

  • Relations with Murtaza 

  • Domestic affairs 

  • Economic issues 

  • Privatisation and era of stagflation 

  • Foreign policy 

  • Relations with military 

  • Second dismissal 

  • Second term as leader of the opposition (1996–99) 

  • Charges of corruption 

  • Negotiating a return to Pakistan: 2006–07 

  • Return to Pakistan: October–December 2007 

  • Assassination: December 2007 

  • Ideology 

  • Personality 

  • Family 

  • Reception and legacy