Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan

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Benazir Bhutto
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto was the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms in 1988–90 and then 1993–96. Wikipedia
Born: June 21, 1953, Karachi
Spouse: Asif Ali Zardari (m. 1987–2007)
Assassinated: December 27, 2007, Rawalpindi
Children: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Asifa Bhutto Zardari, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari
Parents: Nusrat Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Nieces: Fatima Bhutto, Sassi Bhutto
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Benazir Bhutto was born into one of South Asia's great political dynasties, Pakistan's equivalent of the Nehru/Gandhi dynasty in India. Her father was president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977; his father, in turn, was prime minister of a princely state before independence and the Partition of India.

Politics in Pakistan, however, is a dangerous game. In the end, Benazir, her father, and both of her brothers would die violently.

Benazir Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953 in Karachi, Pakistan, the first child of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Begum Nusrat Ispahani. Nusrat was from Iran, and practiced Shi'a Islam, while her husband (and most other Pakistanis) practiced Sunni Islam. They raised Benazir and their other children as Sunnis, but in an open-minded and non-doctrinaire fashion.

The couple later would have two sons and another daughter: Murtaza (born in 1954), daughter Sanam (born in 1957), and Shahnawaz (born in 1958). As the eldest child, Benazir was expected to do very well in her studies, regardless of her gender.