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Benazir Bhutto died 12 years ago, see her life and times in pictures

Read the obituary "Benazir Bhutto, 54, Who Weathered Pakistan's Political Storm for 3 Decades, Dies". His body was so mutilated that it could be identified only by the silver signet ring.


Benazir Bhutto Career In Photos Photo 10 Pictures CBS News

Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 - 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th 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.


Benazir Bhutto Career In Photos CBS News

Benazir Bhutto followed her father into politics and both of them died because of it - he was executed in 1979 and she fell victim to an apparent suicide bomb attack. Her two brothers also.


IN PICS Remembering Pakistan's first woman Prime Minister Benazir

An obituary on Dec. 28 about Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, misstated the location of her detention at the time her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former president and.


Benazir Bhutto Biography, Assassination, Husband, & Son Britannica

Benazir Bhutto was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's first democratically elected prime minister.. DNA from Bilal's body parts gathered after his attack and tested in a US lab.


Benazir Bhutto assassination How Pakistan covered up killing BBC News

Dec. 28, 2007. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader and twice-serving prime minister, was assassinated Thursday evening as she left a political rally here, a scene.


IN PICS Remembering Pakistan's first woman Prime Minister Benazir

Bhutto, 54, was killed Thursday by the bullets of an assassin who blew himself up after firing the shots, killing at least 28 more people and wounding at least 100, GEO-TV reported. Bhutto, who.


IN PICS Remembering Pakistan's first woman Prime Minister Benazir

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto (Urdu: بینظیر بھُٹو کا قتل) took place on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990; 1993-1996) and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan People's Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008. Shots were fired at her after a political rally at Liaqat.


Benazir Bhutto assassination How Pakistan covered up killing BBC News

Thu 27 Dec 2007 21.06 EST. The assassination of the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last night triggered violent convulsions across the country, casting grave doubts on elections.


Photos Pakistan's iron lady, Benazir Bhutto

Supporters carried Ms Bhutto's coffin after her body was released from hospital following her assassination. Alternatively, he suggested, the denial could be a way to challenge the authority of.


Bhutto Assassination Ignites Disarray The New York Times

Here is a list of the leading theories behind who killed Bhutto: The Pakistani state's theory. Musharraf's government blamed the assassination on then-Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who.


Bhutto returns hopeful, mindful of marred past

BHUTTO'S FATEFUL MOMENT. By Mary Anne Weaver. September 26, 1993. At 1:45 A.M. on April 4, 1979, four wardens entered the prison cell of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a waifishly thin man, nearly wasted.


Benazir Bhutto Academy of Achievement

Story Highlights; Pakistan's former PM Benazir Bhutto assassinated in Rawalpindi after rally ; NEW: Interior Ministry says Bhutto died from gunshot wound to the neck NEW: Body being flown to.


Benazir Bhutto Biography, Assassination, Husband, & Son Britannica

Thu 27 Dec 2007 15.51 EST. The brutal assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto tonight triggered violent convulsions across the country that cast grave doubts on elections.


Benazir Bhutto Career In Photos CBS News

The body of murdered Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrived in her family village for burial. Thousands of mourners turned out as a military aircraft carrying the former prime minister.


Bhutto Is Buried as Pakistan Reels The New York Times

The theories behind the murder. A Pakistani anti-terrorism court declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder trial Thursday, nearly 10.