THE DAY December 27, 2007 is remembered in history as the day of the assassination of charismatic Benazir Bhutto. Benazir was the first woman premier of a Muslim country and an icon for democracy in Pakistan.
Born to a westernised father and an Iranian Shia mother on June 21, 1953, she became the first Asian woman to head its prestigious Oxford union debating society. Benazir had a political background. Her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, also a Pakistani Prime Minister, was deposed and executed by military general Zia ul haq on April 4, 1979. From then on she remained under detention until 1984.
Later she was allowed to move to England. There she became the leader of her father’s party. Within the months after general Zia’s death, her party won election on December 2, 1988. Her government was dismissed in 1990 amid the corruption claims and she was replaced by Nawaz Sharif.
Re-elected in 1993, she was banished again three years later by the then President Farooq Leghari. To read more Please click here
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