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  1. www.britannica.com › biography › Benazir-BhuttoBenazir Bhutto | Biography, Assassination, Husband, & Son ...

    Oct 8, 2024 · Benazir Bhutto was prime minister of Pakistan (1988–90 and 1993–96) and the first woman leader of a Muslim nation in modern history. She became the head of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) after the 1979 execution of her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (leader of Pakistan, 1971–77). She was assassinated in 2007.

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  2. www.history.com › topics › womens-historyBenazir Bhutto - HISTORY

    Nov 9, 2009 · Benazir Bhutto was born June 21, 1953, in Karachi, SE Pakistan, the eldest child of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He founded the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and was prime minister from ...

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  4. www.biography.com › political-figures › benazir-bhuttoBenazir Bhutto - Education, Death & Pakistan - Biography

    Apr 2, 2014 · Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953, in Karachi, Pakistan, the eldest child of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. She went on to found the Pakistan People's Party and serve as the nation's prime ...

  5. www.thoughtco.com › benazir-bhutto-of-pakistan-195641Benazir Bhutto: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan - ThoughtCo

    Oct 17, 2019 · Benazir Bhutto was born into one of South Asia's great political dynasties, Pakistan's equivalent of the Nehru/Gandhi dynasty in India. Her father was president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977; his father, in turn, was prime minister of a princely state before independence and the Partition of India.

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  6. time.com › 6714026 › pakistan-the-undoing-of-benazirPakistan The Undoing of Benazir - TIME

    Jan 29, 1990 · Benazir Bhutto was one of the best political stories of the 1980s. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she rallied from imprisonment and exile to return to Pakistan in 1986 and confront General ...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Benazir_BhuttoBenazir Bhutto - Wikipedia

    Benazir Bhutto[ a ] (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.

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  9. www.jstor.org › stable › 30172306Benazir Bhutto: A Political Portrait - JSTOR

    Benazir Bhutto: A Political Portrait LAWRENCE ZIRING Benazir Benazir Bhutto is one of the more recognizable contemporary world fig-ures. She did not emerge from the obscurity that surrounds so many other Third World leaders, but has been a public personality from the time she was a child. Her development, educational experience, political ...