Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto (1953), Pakistani stateswoman. The daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, president (1971-73) and subsequently prime minister (1973-77) of Pakistan, Benazir was educated at Harvard and Oxford. Following her father’s deposition (1977; he was executed in 1979), she spent seven years under house arrest and a further period in exile. In 1988 she made a triumphant return to Pakistan and was elected the first woman leader of a Muslim country. However, following in-creased ethnic violence she was dismissed by the president in 1990. Charges of corruption were subsequently dropped and she was re-elected in 1993.
