Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.
She was born in 1953 and came from a family of politicians. Her father served as the country’s prime minister and president in the 1970s.
He studied economics, law and philosophy at Harvard and Oxford.
When a coup took place in Pakistan in 1977 and the army seized power, her father was arrested and executed. It was then that she decided to get involved in politics. At the same time, she was arrested and held in solitary confinement.
When she was released she went to England and became the leader in exile of the Pakistan People’s Party, which was founded by her father.
When the plane carrying the country’s president-general was blown up in 1986, Bhutto returned to Pakistan. She became vice president of the country and in 1988 she became prime minister. Two years later, her government was ousted by the president amid scandals over corruption and abuse of power.
In 1993 she was re-elected Prime Minister until 1996 when she was forced to resign for the same reasons. Until 2007 she lived between London and Dubai. This year the charges against her were dropped and so she returned to her country.
On the day of her arrival, a bomb attack was carried out against her but she escaped. But 140 people died. On December 27 of the same year she did not have the same fate. Kamikaze shot her and then detonated explosives killing another 16 people.
Three days of mourning were declared in the country at that time and there was turmoil all over the country.
In her personal life she was married and had three children.
[Source: el.wikipedia.org]
