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Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani stateswoman who twice served as the 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. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from 1982 until her assassination in 2007.
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politics · Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996) · politician · also Benazir Bhutto, Benazir, BB, Daughter of the East, Bhutto
Born 21 June 1953 · Died 27 December 2007 · Q34413
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2026· 7 entries
“There was no basis for [strikes] ... in view of the ongoing political process”
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“won some battles but ultimately lost the war”
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| Associated Press Of Pakistan: Artists performing in a comedy and improvisational stage play " AnarKali " at Latif Auditorium Hall Chandka Medical College in collaboration with Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University, Organized by Koohi Goth Women's Hospital Karachi
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Pakistan Connect: Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Vice-Chancellor survives attack
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Asia News: Benazir Bhutto in Magnifica Humanitas sparks joy among Pakistani Catholics
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Moneycontrol: Benazir Bhutto
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2020· 1 entry
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Posts claim video shows opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari does not know how basic foodstuff is weighed and sold in Pakistan” False.
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2018· 1 entry
Bhutto's friend Ron Suskind described the marriage as "probably not all bad", although added that Bhutto did not consider her husband to be an equal partner in the marriage
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2017· 1 entry
The Diplomat: 10 Years After Benazir Bhutto’s Death, What Lies Ahead for the Pakistan People’s Party?
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2010· 2 entries
NPR: Benazir Bhutto Examined In New Book, Documentary
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New Republic: Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? No One Really Knows.
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2009· 2 entries
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon established a three-person team to lead the investigation comprising the Chilean Heraldo Muñoz, Irish Peter FitzGerald, and Indonesian Marzuki Darusman
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CBS News described her legacy as "mixed", and commented that: "it's only in death that she will become an icon—in some ways, people will look at her accomplishments through rose-tinted glasses rather than remembering the
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights (2008).
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As Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West
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Bhutto's friend Victoria Schofield said that the marriage should not be judged by ordinary standards
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2007· 7 entries
Died 2007-12-27.
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“It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.”
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“Democracy is the best revenge.”
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“Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. I think they need me. I don't think it's addictive. I think, if anything, it's the opposite of addictive. You want to run away from it, but it doesn't let you go. It's doing it again.”
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“Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value — democracy.”
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Mass anti-Musharraf protests broke out in what was known as the Lawyers' Movement
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“I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.”
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2006· 3 entries
When he signed the Women's Protection Bill
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Bhutto and Sharif began a process of reconciliation
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The Pakistani National Accountability Bureau (NAB) accused Bhutto, Malik and Ali Jaffery of owning Petrofine
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2004· 1 entry
A UK court ruled that Rockwood Estate in Surrey—which Zardari owned, despite his repeated denials—should be sold and the proceeds given to the Pakistani state, who were the rightful owners
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2002· 1 entry
Musharraf amended the constitution to ban anyone serving more than two terms as prime minister, thus disqualifying both Bhutto and Sharif, whom he called "useless politicians"
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1998· 4 entries
A Swiss magistrate, Daniel Devaud, seized a safe-deposit box containing a $190,000 necklace that Bhutto had purchased in London's Bond Street the previous year
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Went into self-exile again, living between Dubai and London for the next decade
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India tested its first nuclear weapon; Bhutto responded with an editorial for the Los Angeles Times in which she argued that the international community should go further than imposing economic sanctions on India, but sh
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Switzerland issued a request for the arrest of Bhutto on suspicion of money laundering
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1997–1999).
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1996· 3 entries
The Guinness Book of Records named her the most popular international politician of the year, and she also received such awards at the French Legion of Honour and Oxford University's Doctor Honours Causa
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Transparency International ranked Pakistan as the world's second most corrupt country
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Benazir Bhutto met with Japanese officials and warned India about conducting nuclear tests
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1995· 8 entries
Benazir also appointed Admiral Mansurul Haq as the Chief of Naval Staff, as the Admiral had personal contacts with the Benazir's family
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Personally appointed General Naseem Rana as the Director-General of the ISI, who later commanded the Pakistan Army's assets in which came to known as "Pakistan's secret war in Afghanistan"
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Where she convinced Congress to repeal sanctions that they had imposed on Pakistan over its nuclear weapons programme in 1990
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Established his own party, the PPP (Shaheed Bhutto); the party's name implied that he was closer to the Bhutto's family's Shaheed than his sister, whom he symbolically distanced from the family by referring to her as
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Benazir Bhutto made another state visit to the United States and held talks with U
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And a bribery scandal involving her and her husband Asif Ali Zardari; in response, President Farooq Leghari dismissed her government
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The ISI reported to Bhutto that Narasimha Rao had authorised nuclear tests and that they could be conducted at any minute
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Zardari purchased a fifteen-bedroom country house at Rockwood in Surrey, southern England; to hide evidence of ownership, he obtained the property through companies based in the Isle of Man
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1994· 1 entry
Career landmark: Federal Minister for Finance (1994–1996).
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1993· 4 entries
Bhutto declared that her family burial ground would be converted into an official mausoleum and would undergo significant expansion
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Elections, in the context that she had no Urdu-speaking sentiment in her circle and discrimination was continued even in her government
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Bhutto ordered Musharraf, then Director-General of the Pakistani Army's Directorate-General for the Military Operation (DGMO), to join her state visit to the United States, unusual and unconventional participation
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Pakistan (1993–1996).
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1990· 5 entries
She also had two daughters, Bakhtawar Bhutto (born 25 January 1990) and Aseefa (born 3 February 1993).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1990–1993).
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Major General Pervez Musharraf proposed a military invasion of Kargil as part of an attempt to annex Kashmir; Bhutto refused to back the plan, believing that the international condemnation would be severe
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Shortly before leaving office, the American Ambassador Robert Oakley informed her that information obtained by U
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Bhutto gave birth to her first daughter, Bakhtawar
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1989· 2 entries
Attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, where Pakistan was re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations
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The MQM—whose party represented mohajir interests—left Bhutto's coalition government
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1988· 5 entries
Campaign: 1988 electoral election.
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Defence (1988–1990).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990).
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Bhutto's mother arranged for her marriage to the businessman Asif Ali Zardari
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Bhutto published her autobiography, sub-titled Daughter of the East in its British edition and Daughter of Destiny in the United States
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1986· 1 entry
And—influenced by Thatcherite economics—transformed the PPP's platform from a socialist to a liberal one, before leading it to victory in the 1988 election
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1982· 1 entry
Career landmark: party leader (1982–2007).
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1979· 1 entry
That imposed strict Islamic punishments for crimes such as theft, adultery, and alcohol consumption
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1977· 2 entries
Was elected President of the Oxford Union debating society, the first Asian woman to hold that post
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Returned to Pakistan during her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's socialist government; shortly after, her father was ousted in a military coup and executed
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1974· 1 entry
Flew to Lahore to accompany her father at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's summit
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1972· 1 entry
Benazir accompanied her father to the India-Pakistan Summit in Simla as a replacement for her mother, who was ill
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1971· 1 entry
While she was at Harvard, Zulfikar invited her to join him in New York City, where he was involved in a United Nations Security Council meeting on that year's Indo-Pakistani War
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1968· 1 entry
Zulfikar was arrested and imprisoned for three months, during which he wrote to Benazir to encourage her studies
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1957· 1 entry
Zulfikar inherited the family's land holdings, making him extremely wealthy
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-06-21.
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