Benazir

بینظیر بھٹو Benazir Bhutto 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007 I was a Pakistani politician. I was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having been twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. I was sworn in for the first time in 1988 but removed from office 20 months later under orders of then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on false grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993 I was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on similar charges, this time by President Farooq Leghari.I went into self-imposed exile in Dubai in 1998, where I remained until I returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007, after reaching an understanding with General Musharraf by which I was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn.I was the eldest child of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani of Sindhi descent, and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, a Pakistani of Iranian-Kurdish descent. My paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto who came to Larkana Sindh before partition from his native town of Bhatto Kalan which was situated in the Indian state of Haryana.I was assassinated on 27 December 2007, in a combined suicide bomb attack and shooting during a political rally of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the Liaquat National Bagh in Rawalpindi. Ex-government spokesman Tariq Azim Khan said that, although it appeared that I had been shot, it was unclear whether her wounds had been caused by a shooting or shrapnel from the bomb. Al-queda and the Taleban, along with religious fundamentalists in the Pakistani government carried out my murder.