Benazir
Bhutto
1953-2007
Benazir Bhutto was the 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,
and the youngest world leader at the time.
She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of Pakistan
through much of the 1970s. Her administrations were mired in
chaos and corruption, for which she and her husband were tried and
convicted. She spent many years in exile after this, but returned to
oppose the military government. While campaigning for her party, she
was
assassinated by either the Taliban or al-Quaeda or someone of that ilk,
probably in cahoots with rogue elements of Pakistani intelligence.
Husband: Asif Ali Zardari
(m. 1987)
