BEIJING, Nov. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Benazir Bhutto, the
eldest child of former President of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was born on
June 21, 1953, at Karachi.
In June 1973, she graduated from Harvard University with a
degree in political science. After graduating, she joined Oxford University in
the fall of 1973.
Bhutto returned to Pakistan in June 1977. She was
nominated as the Prime Minister on Dec. 2, 1988. At the age of 35, she was the
youngest and the first woman Prime Minister to lead a Muslim nation in modern
age. She returned to power, by winning the October 1993 elections. Farooq Ahmad
Khan Leghari dismissed her government in November 1996 on corruption
charges.
Bhutto is President Pervez Musharraf's unlikely
ally in the nation's political process of recent years, sometime combative,
sometime conciliatory.
In 2007, a deal between Musharraf and her cleared the
way for Bhutto to return home from exile in Britain and Dubai on the
understanding that Musharraf would step down from his army job and then serve
another five-year term as president while Bhutto would lead her Pakistan
People's Party to parliamentary success in early 2008 and serve as Prime
Minister.
Bhutto also attempted to unite two key strands of the
country's fragmented opposition by visiting deposed chief justice in his
barricaded home Nov. 10 in the capital.
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Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir
Bhutto (C) waves to her supporters as she submits her nomination papers
for national assembly seat NA-204 to the district session court judge at a
court in her home town of Larkana Nov. 26, 2007.(Xinhua/AFP
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Bhutto files for nomination in
upcoming elections
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani former prime
minister and main opposition leader Benazir Bhutto filed for her nominations
Monday for national assembly elections in the southern central city of Larkana,
local media reported.
"Despite calls for boycott of the polls by main opposition
camps ...Elections have been announced and all the main players have jumped into
the arena," the Dawn News channel said, noting that former Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif was also expected to file for his nominations later the day. Full Story
Bhutto rejects Pakistan's caretaker
government
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Former Pakistani Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto Friday rejected a caretaker government soon after it was
sworn in by President Pervez Musharraf to organize parliamentary elections by
Jan. 9.
"This caretaker government is continuation of the PML-Q
(the former ruling party) and is not acceptable," Bhutto told a press conference
in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Full Story
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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir
Bhutto addresses a news conference at Bilawal House in Karachi October 31,
2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Bhutto says no more talks with
Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Former Pakistani Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto said Monday that she had ended talks with President
General Pervez Musharraf as "he has not honored his commitments", according to
local press reports.
Bhutto told reporters in the eastern Pakistani city of
Lahore that fair and transparent elections were not possible in the state of
emergency and demanded lifting of emergency, restoration of the deposed chief
justice and all other judges who did not take oath under the Provincial
Constitutional Order (PCO). Full Story
Former Pak PM Benazir Bhutto returns
to country
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Former Pakistani prime
minister Benazir Bhutto arrived at Karachi airport from Dubai on Saturday after
President General Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in the country,
local media reported.
Bhutto did not know whether she would be allowed to get
off, be arrested or deported, said Wajid Hasan, Bhutto's spokesman. Full Story
