Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto 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 woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired the Pakistan People's Party from 1982 until her assassination in 2007. Of Sindhi and Kurdish parentage, Bhutto was born in Karachi to the politically-significant and aristocratic Bhutto family.