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- Height5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)
- Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority country. 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.- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseAsif Ali Zardari(December 18, 1987 - December 27, 2007) (her death, 3 children)
- White head scarfs
- Hermes scarfs
- Daughter of Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Beigum Bhutto.
- First woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim country as Prime Minister of Pakistan. She served two non-consecutive terms from 2 December 1988 to 6 August 1990 and from 19 October 1993 to 5 November 1996.
- Has three children, Bilawal (b. 1988), Bakhtawar (b. 1990) and Asifa (b. 1994).
- After having faced over 90 legal cases (corruption, laundering state-owned money etc.) in Pakistan since the mid-1990s, she moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- Graduated from Oxford University after becoming the first Asian woman to be president of the Oxford Union, a debating society.
- You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
- I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
- Don't worry, I'm going to be safe, and God willing I'm going to be safe. - The day she left Dubai to Pakistan after 8 years.
- I'm calling for General Musharraf to step down, to quit, to leave, to end martial law. I will not be able to work with General Musharraf because I simply would not be able to believe anything he said to me. - On President Musharraf
- There's a focus on the present; don't worry about tomorrow. ... when the time comes that I have to die, I'll die!
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