Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto (1953- 2007)

Pakistani

Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician; she was the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms in 1988–90 and then 1993–96. She is the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, first in 1988 and again 1993.

Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi on 21 June 1953.

In 1982, three years after her father's execution, 29-year-old Benazir Bhutto became the chairperson of the PPP—a political party, making her the first woman in Pakistan to head a major political party.

In 1988, she became the first woman to be elected as the head of an Islamic state's government; she also remains Pakistan's only female prime minister.

In 1988, she became the first woman to be elected as the head of an Islamic state's government; she also remains Pakistan's only female prime minister.

Benazir was died in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan on 27 December 2017 at the age of 54.

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