Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history. She was most influential leaders of south Asia.
The Benazir Bhutto memorial photographs with Bilawal Bakhtawar and Asifa.Bhutto. She was first lady to rule any Muslim country in this world.
Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history.
She born in Karachi, Pakistan to a prominent political family. At age 16 she left her homeland to study at Harvard’s Radcliffe College.
After completing her undergraduate degree at Radcliffe she studied at England’s Oxford University.
Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history.
She returned to Pakistan where her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lected prime minister.
The military seized power and her father was imprisoned.
Her father was hanged in military government of General Zia Ul Haq.
Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history.
Bhutto herself was also arrested many times over the following years, and was detained for three years before being permitted to leave the country in 1984.
But along with her two brothers, she founded an underground organization to resist the military dictatorship.
When her brother died in 1985, she returned to Pakistan for his burial, and was again arrested for participating in anti-government rallies.
Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history.
Anti-Zia demonstrations resumed and Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in April 1986.
The public response to her return was tumultuous, and she publicly called for the resignation of Zia Ul Haq.
Benazir Bhutto memorial photographs with Bilawal Bakhtawar and Asifa
She elected co-chairwoman of the Pakistan People’s Party along with her mother, and when free elections finally held in 1988.
She herself became Prime Minister. At 35, she was one of the youngest chief executives in the world.
And the first woman to serve as prime minister in an Islamic country.
Benazir Bhutto memorial photographs with Bilawal Bakhtawar and Asifa
President Ishaq dismissed Bhutto from office.
Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history.
While in office, she brought electricity to the countryside and built schools all over the country.
She made hunger, housing and health care her top priorities, and looked forward to continuing to modernize Pakistan.
Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history.
At the same time, Bhutto faced constant opposition from the Islamic fundamentalist movement.
Asif Ali Zardari. Mir Murtaza died when his bodyguard became involved in a gunfight with police in Karachi.
The Pakistani public shocked by this turn of events and PPP supporters divided over the charges against Zardari.
Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history.
In 1996 President Leghari of Pakistan dismissed Benazir Bhutto from office, alleging mismanagement, and dissolved the National Assembly.
The re-election bid failed in 1997, and the next elected government, headed by the more conservative Nawaz Sharif, overthrown by the military.
Bhutto’s husband imprisoned, and once again, she forced to leave her homeland.
She and her children lived in exile in London, where she continued to advocate the restoration of democracy in Pakistan.
The face of death threats from radical Islamists, and the hostility of the government, she returned to her native country.
Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history.
Although she greeted by enthusiastic crowds, within hours of her arrival, her motorcade attacked by a suicide bomber.
She survived this first assassination attempt, although more than 100 bystanders died in the attack.
With national elections scheduled for January 2008.
Benazir Bhutto memorable pictures videos and complete history.
Her Pakistan People’s Party poised for a victory that would make Bhutto prime minister once again.
Only a few weeks before the election, the extremists struck again.
After a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, a gunman fired at her car before detonating a bomb, killing himself and more than 20 bystanders.
But soon succumbed to injuries suffered in the attack. In the wake of her death, rioting erupted throughout the country.
The loss of the country’s most popular democratic leader has plunged Pakistan into turmoil, intensifying.
The dangerous instability of a nuclear-armed nation in a highly volatile region.
