Jiay bhutto benazir biography
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"Daughter of the East" is a personal account of Benizir Bhutto and her youth, 20s, and 30s..
Benazir Bhutto
Prime Minister of Pakistan (–; –)
Benazir Bhutto[a] (21 June – 27 December ) was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from to , and again from to She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.
A liberal and a secularist ideologically, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from the early s until her assassination in
Of mixed Sindhi, Persian, and Kurdish parentage, Bhutto was born in Karachi to a politically important, wealthy aristocratic family.
She studied at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, where she was President of the Oxford Union. Her father, the PPP leader Zulfikar Bhutto, was elected prime minister on a socialist platform in She returned to Pakistan in , shortly before her father was ousted in a military coup and executed.
Bhutto and her mother, Nusrat Bhutto, took control of the PPP and led the country