Biography of Benazir Bhutto

Policy challenges against terror

21 June 1953 27 December 2007 Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi, Pakistan on June 21, 1953. His father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, while the mother is Begum Nussram Kurdish-Iranian origin Bhutto. Benazir Bhutto has a famous grandfather, Shaw Nawaz, who was one of the main leaders of the independence movement in Pakistan. After studying in Pakistan, the young side for the United States, enrolling at the Faculty of political science at Harvard. In 1973, after brilliant studies, earned a Bachelor's degree. Shortly after Benazir Bhutto moved to Oxford, studying economics, philosophy and politics. After finishing his university studies, she returns to Pakistan, carrying out the activity of his father's Assistant, who is directing the country. In recent years the dramatic events which follow Benazir assists in his Country, in fact, after having established a good friendship with the United States led by President John Kennedy and was a great popular success for its policies of Socialist matrix, Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is deposed from office politics following a military coup led by General Zia ul Haq Pakistani. The 1979 is a rough year for family Bhutto, because under the military dictatorship Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is executed, after being sentenced to death. At this time, Benazir Bhutto is forced under house arrest. In 1984 the woman back in England, having got permission from Pakistani dictatorship. In the United Kingdom, Benazir engages in policy with the Pakistani people's Party that operates outside national borders. In 1985 the Pakistani leader suffers the loss of his brother Shanawaz, died under suspicious circumstances in Cannes. Muhammad Zia ul Haq died on August 17, 1988 and on 16 November elections are held in Pakistan that led to the victory of Pakistan people's Party with a relative majority of the votes at the National Assembly. The December 2, 1988, at the age of thirty-five, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir covers. In 1990 the Pakistan people's party leader leaves the country guide, as it accused of corruption. His party gets a crushing defeat in elections that are held in the same year. From 1990 to 1993, the woman is the head of the opposition to the Government led by Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Muslim League-N party. In 1993, after a new election, Bhutto and her party are again at the helm of the country. In 1996 his Government was again dismissed on charges of corruption. In 1996, Murtaza, Benazir's brother dies after terrorist attack took place during a rally. From 1996 to 2002 the woman cannot run again to lead the Country because it already has led two Governments and has already participated in two elections. In 2002, with the change of the constitutional text, Benazir Bhutto may be active again in the national political scene in his country. After eight years of exile in Dubai and London, Benazir Bhutto decides to return to his country on October 18, 2007, after having carried out with then-President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf a negotiation for the separation of powers in the country. On that date, a terrorist attack in Karachi hit a procession of supporters of Benazir Bhutto, who await the arrival of political leaders who at that moment is aboard an armored truck, remaining unharmed. The terrorist attack causes the death of about six hundred people and injured 138 [provincial Council]. On this occasion, Benazir Bhutto is confined under house arrest and only on pressure made forcefully by the United States these are revoked. The November 2, 2007 the political leader releases his latest interview with the Arab News Network Al Jazeera English. The December 27, 2007 Benazir Bhutto held a political rally in Rawalpindi, finding death in hospital because of a suicide attack that also killed 20 people.
Article contributed by the team of collaborators.