BRIEF HISTORY OF LEGEND

MUHTARMA
BENAZIR BHUTTO

By,

ADNAN MURAD BHAYO

(former Vice President)
Peoples Students Federation
Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology
Unit, Karachi
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani
politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples
Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in
Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to
lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime
Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996)
Benazir Bhutto was born on June
21, 1953, at Karachi's Pinto Hospital,
Pakistan.

She was the eldest child of former

Premier Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and and
Begum Nusrat Bhutto.

She had three younger siblings

Murtaza, Shahnawaz and Sanam.
Benazir went to school in Karachi through
high school. She passed her O-level
examinations at the age of 15.

She then went on to complete her A-

Levels at the Karachi Grammar School

From 1969 to 1973 she attended Radcliffe

College in the United States. Between
1973 and 1977 she took a wide variety of
courses in international law and
diplomacy, economics, philosophy and
politics
Benazir Bhutto’s father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto, was removed from office following a
military coup in 1977 led by the then chief of army
General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who imposed
martial law.

General Zia charged Mr. Bhutto with conspiring to

murder the father of dissident politician Ahmed
Raza Kasuri. Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was sentenced
to death by the martial law court.

After the overthrow of her father Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s
government in a bloodless coup Benazir Bhutto spent 6 years in and out of
house arrest as she struggled to rally political support to force Zia to drop
murder charges against her father..
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