Benazir Bhutto

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 center-left Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980’s until her assassination.

Bhutto was born in Karachi to a politically important, aristocratic family; her father, the PPP’s founder and leader Zulfikar, was elected Prime Minister on a socialist platform in 1973. Bhutto studied at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, where she was President of the Oxford Union.

Date of birth:
21st June, 1953
Date of death:
27th December, 2007
"The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress."
― Benazir Bhutto
Topic(s): Peace
"Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan."
― Benazir Bhutto
Topic(s): Peace
"General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me."
― Benazir Bhutto
Topic(s): Respect
"The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice."
― Benazir Bhutto
Topic(s): Peace
"Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism."
― Benazir Bhutto
Topic(s): Peace

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