14th Death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto, (born June 21, 1953, Karachi, Pakistan—died December 27, 2007, Rawalpindi), Pakistani politician who became the primary female leader of a Muslim nation in trendy history. She served 2 terms as prime minister of Pakistan, in 1988–90 and in 1993–96. Bhutto was the female offspring of the politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was the leader of Pakistan from 1971 till 1977. She was educated at university (B.A., 1973) and later on studied philosophy, political science, and economic science at the University of Oxford (B.A., 1977).

After her father’s execution in 1979 by the army dictator Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto had become the titular head of her father’s party, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and continued residence arrest from 1979 to 1984. In exile from 1984 to 1986, she returned back to Pakistan after the lifting of martial law and shortly have become the most popular public leader in political opposition to Zia.

President Zia died in August 1988 in a mysterious aircraft crash, leaving a energy vacuum on the centre of Pakistani politics. In the following elections, Bhutto’s PPP received the single biggest bloc of seats withinside the National Assembly. She have become top minister on December 1, 1988, heading a coalition government.

Daughter of the East, Bhutto's autobiography (also published as Daughter of Destiny, 1989), was released in 1988; she also wrote Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, which was published posthumously in 2008.