Benazir Bhutto

Quick Facts

Full Name	Benazir Bhutto
Occupation	World Leader
Date Of Birth	Jun 21, 1953(1953-06-21)
Age	71
Date Of Death	2007-12-27
Birthplace	Karachi
Country	Pakistan
Birth City	Sindh
Horoscope	Gemini

Benazir Bhutto Biography

Benazir Bhutto is one of the most popular and richest World Leader who was born on June 21, 1953 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. 11.th Premier Minister from Pakistan who was elected in 1988 as the first woman to be elected to head an Muslim state. She was killed during a terrorist attack in Pakistan after nearly nine years living in self-imperial.

As Like Indira Gandhi, she was assassinated by extremists within her own country. her, she was murdered by extremists in her own country.

Bhutto was born on 21 June 1953 in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Her father was the politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and her mother was Begum Nusrat Ispahani, of Iranian Kurdish parentage. Zulfikar was the son of Shah Nawaz Bhutto, a prominent politician who had served as Prime Minister of the Junagadh State. The Bhuttos were aristocratic, wealthy landlords from Sindh, part of the waderos or landed gentry. They were Sunni Muslims, although Nusrat had been born into a Shia Muslim family before converting to Sunnism on her marriage. The couple had married in September 1951, and Benazir was their first child. She was given the name of an aunt who had died young. The Bhutto’s three younger children were Murtaza (born 1954), Sanam (1957), and Shahnawaz (1958). When Shah Nawaz died in 1957, Zulfikar inherited the family’s land holdings, making him extremely wealthy.

Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀُٽو ‎; Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو ‎ ; Urdu pronunciation: [beːnəˈziːr ˈbʱʊʈ.ʈoː] ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.

Her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a prime minister. She was exiled in a military coup.

Benazir Bhutto Net Worth

Benazir Bhutto is one of the richest World Leader from Pakistan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Benazir Bhutto 's net worth $850 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her father was able to challenge the traditional military leadership of the country and then pay the price with his life and freedom.

She was elected as Prime Minister twice. Twice she was removed from the office for corruption.

After accusations of being too conciliatory towards India, Bhutto took a harder line against them, particularly on the Kashmir conflict. Amid growing Kashmiri protests against Indian rule, in interviews Bhutto expressed support for the Kashmiri Muslim community. She called on the United Nations to oversee the Kashmir plebiscite originally promised in 1948. In January 1990, Indian police opened fire on a pro-independence rally in Kashmir, killing fifty and flaming tensions in the region. Bhutto visited a training camp for pro- independence Kashmiri militants on the Pakistani side of the border and pledged $5 million for their cause; she followed this with further statements in support of the militant groups. In one speech, she incited Kashmiri Muslims to rise up against their administration. Later, in a 1993 interview, Bhutto stated that supporting proxy wars in Punjab and Kashmir was the “one right thing” undertaken by Zia, presenting these in part as revenge for India’s role in “the humiliating loss of Bangladesh”.

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Pakistan suffered a currency crisis when the government failed to arrest the 30% fall in the value of the Pakistani Rupee from ₨. 21 to ₨.30 compared to the United States dollar. Soon economic progress became her top priority but her investment and industrialization programs faced major setbacks due to conceptions formed by investors based upon her People’s Party nationalization program in the 1970s. By the 1990s, Khan and Bhutto’s government had also ultimately lost the currency war with the Indian Rupee which beat the value of Pakistan rupee for the first time in the 1970s. Bhutto’s denationalization program also suffered from many political setbacks, as many of her government members were either directly or indirectly involved with the government corruption in major government-owned industries, and her appointed government members allegedly sabotaged her efforts to privatize the industries.

Facts & Trivia

Benazir Ranked on the list of most popular World Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto celebrates birthday on June 21 of every year.

In 1971, while she was at Harvard, Zulfikar invited her to join him in New York City, where he was involved in a United Nations Security Council meeting on that year’s Indo-Pakistani War. In December 1971, Zulfikar assumed the presidency of Pakistan, the first democratically elected leader after 13 years of military rule. In 1972, Benazir accompanied her father to the India- Pakistan Summit in Simla as a replacement for her mother, who was ill. There, she was introduced to the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. While in Simla, she attracted much attention from both local and national Indian press, the first time she received such notice. She attributed this to the fact that—in her words—she “symbolized a new generation. I had never been an Indian. I had been born in independent Pakistan. I was free of the complexes and prejudices which had torn Indians and Pakistanis apart in the bloody trauma of partition.” In 1974, she was flown to Lahore to accompany her father at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s summit. Here, she met a number of the assembled senior Muslim world leaders, who included Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, Syria’s Hafez al-Assad, Saudi Arabia’s Faisal, and Jordan’s Hussein.

How did Benazir Bhutto died?

On 8 February 2008, investigators from Scotland Yard concluded that Benazir Bhutto died after hitting her head as she was tossed by the force of a suicide blast, not from an assassin’s bullet.

Who is Benazir Bhutto and why is she important?

Bhutto became the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country, as well as Pakistan’s second nationally elected Prime Minister. At 35 years old, she was the youngest elected leader in the Islamic world, the world’s youngest Prime Minister, and the youngest female Prime Minister ever elected.

Who is Benazir Bhutto in I Am Malala?

The first female prime minister of Pakistan, a rival of General Pervez Musharraf, and an important role model for Malala. Benazir Bhutto is a talented and charismatic politician who uses her influence to fight for women’s rights, and claims that she will fight the forces of religious extremism in her country.

Why did Bhutto hanged in Pakistan?

On 5 July that same year, Bhutto was deposed in a military coup by his appointed army chief Zia-ul-Haq, before being controversially tried and executed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1979 for authorising the murder of a political opponent.

When Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged?

April 4, 1979