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Benazir Bhutto [a] (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto (Urdu: بینظیر بھُٹو کا قتل) took place on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto , the former Prime Minister of Pakistan and then-leader of the opposition party Pakistan People's Party , had been campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008 .
The first Benazir Bhutto government was formed on 2 December 1988 [1] following general elections held in 1988. Due to the PPP only securing a plurality, the new government forged a coalition alliance with the MQM , ANP , JUI(FR) and other additional independents.
The Second Benazir Bhutto government was formed on 19 October 1993, [1] following general elections the same month and dissolved on 5 November 1996 by President Farooq Leghari. [ 2 ] : 118 During the beginning of her second term Benazir Bhutto entered into a much stronger government than in her first term and had greater experience in ...
Benazir Bhutto, accompanied by her husband Zardari and son Bilawal, US visit in 1989, during Bhutto's government. After the dismissal of Benazir Bhutto's first government on 6 August 1990 by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of corruption, the government of Pakistan issued directives to its intelligence agencies to investigate the allegations.
Operation Midnight Jackal, or simply known as Midnight Jackal, [1] was a first of two major political scandals that took place in the first term of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1988–89 that was a plot of ISI's Internal Wing to assist the vote of no-confidence movement in the Parliament to pave the way for new elections in favor of conservative politicians.: 146 [2]
A total of 1,370 candidates contested the National Assembly elections. [3] The campaign lasted for a month and remained generally peaceful. [2]After Zia's death, the democratic socialists and secular parties re-united and campaigned under the PPP's platform led by Benazir Bhutto; previously Zia had crushed the socialists' Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, which had attempted to ...
The achievements of the Bhutto family are exaggerated and lauded and their mistakes and hypocrisies are ignored. Benazir's grandfather, Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, a feudal landowner and a pro-British politician of no great importance, is presented as a seminal figure in the creation of Pakistan in 1947.