Benazir Bhutto (sindhi 21 june 1953-27 decembeer 2007) was a pakistani politician who served as the prime minister of pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first female prime minister of pakistan and the first women to govern a muslim majority nation.Ideologically a progressive , she was the leader of central-left pakistan people party (PPP).
Bhutto was born in karachi to a wealthy , politically important family: her father the PPP leader Zulfikar , was elected prime minister in 1973. Bhutto studied at hardward university and the university of oxford, where her father was ousted in a 1977 military coup and executed . Bhutto and her mother Nusrat took control of PPP and lead the country's movement for the restoration of Democracy : Bhutto was repeatedly imprisoned by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's military government and then exiled to Britain in 1984. She returned in 1986 and lead the PPP to victory in the 1988 election .
As primeminister , her attempt at reform were stifled by conservative forces, including President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and powerfull military .
Her administration was accused of corruption and nepotism , and dismissed in 1990. Intelligence services riged the 1990 election to ensure a victory for the conservative Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) after watching Bhutto served as the Leader of the Opposition.
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