Benazir Bhutto by Alexandra Brown https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g Made with ♥ en-us 2018-04-04 15:31:28 UTC 2026-02-28 03:55:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png Benazir Bhutto a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248547982 2018-04-04 15:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248547982 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248549697 Benazir Bhutto 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 women to head a democratic Government. ]]> 2018-04-04 15:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248549697 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248580970 Benazir Bhutto, (born June 21, 1953, Karachi Pakistan—died December 27, 2007, Rawalpindi), Pakistani politician who became the first woman leader of a Muslim nation.]]> 2018-04-04 16:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248580970 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248582101
Bhutto was the daughter of the politician, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who was the leader of Pakistan from 1971 until 1977. She was educated at Harvard University (B.A., 1973) and subsequently studied philosophy, Political science, and economics at the University of Oxford 


After her father’s execution in 1979 during the rule of the military dictator, Mohammed Zia Bhutto became the titular head of her father’s party, the Pakistan people party, and endured frequent House arrest from 1979 to 1984. In exile from 1984 to 1986, she returned to Pakistan after the lifting of Martial law and soon became the foremost figure in the political opposition to Zia

]]> 2018-04-04 16:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248582101 Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248586760 2018-04-04 16:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248586760 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248588496 Bhutto was unable to do much to combat Pakistan’s widespread poverty, governmental corruption, and increasing crime. In August 1990 the president of Pakistan]]> 2018-04-04 17:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248588496 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248592840 In August 1990 the president of Pakistan, Ghulam ishaq Khan, dismissed her government on charges of corruption and other Malfeasance and called for new elections. Bhutto’s PPP suffered a defeat in the national elections of October 1990; thereafter she led the parliamentary opposition against her successor, ]]> 2018-04-04 17:12:29 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248592840 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248998167 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]> 2018-04-05 18:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248998167 Zulfikar & Bhutto a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248999705  where her father was ousted in a 1977 military coup and executed. Bhutto and her mother Nusrat took control of the PPP and led the country's Movement for the Restoration of democracy. ]]> 2018-04-05 18:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/248999705 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249005026 Bhutto sadly pasted away on December 27, 2007. her dead was always remembered with honer in Rawalpindi Pakistan, She was assassinated her death may have been sad but we remember Bhutto.

]]> 2018-04-05 18:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249005026 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249008568 Voter turnout was low in the 1997 elections, in which Bhutto’s PPP suffered a decisive loss to Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party. With British and Swiss cooperation, Sharif’s administration continued to pursue the corruption charges against Bhutto. In 1999 Bhutto and her husband.]]> 2018-04-05 18:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249008568 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249010767 the controversial businessman and senator Asif Ali Zardari—jailed since 1996 on a variety of additional charges—were both convicted of corruption by a Lahore court, a decision overturned by the Supreme Court in 2001 because of evidence of governmental interference. ]]> 2018-04-05 18:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249010767 Fun Fact a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249012160 Benazir Bhutto was born June 21, 1953, in Karachi, Pakistan. Her name means "one without equal."]]> 2018-04-05 18:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249012160 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249013747 2018-04-05 18:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249013747 Fun But True Fact a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249014427  She attended Catholic schools in Pakistan. She entered Harvard University's Radcliffe College at age 16 and earned a cum laude degree in comparative government in 1973. She went on to Oxford University where she was the first Asian woman to be elected president of the Oxford Union, an elite debating society. Following her 1977 graduation from Oxford, Bhutto returned to Pakistan hoping to enter the foreign service in the government headed by her father, who was prime ministe]]> 2018-04-05 18:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249014427 a_brown186 https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249015832 Benazir when she was little]]> 2018-04-05 18:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/a_brown186/ukre4djcq69g/wish/249015832