Benazir Bhutto(21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th 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 or co-chaired the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007. Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) was a prominent Pakistani politician and the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority country as Prime Minister.
She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and a former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Benazir’s life and political career were marked by her determination to promote democracy, social reform, and women’s rights, despite facing significant challenges and political turmoil. Benazir Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953, in Karachi, Pakistan. She received her early education in Pakistan before attending prestigious institutions abroad, including Radcliffe College at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).
