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Benazir Bhutto
A Heroic Journey
1953
Born to Nusrat and Zulfikar Ali. Bhutto in Karachi on June 21.Studied at Harvard and Oxford.
1979
Father hanged by Zia-ul-Haq
after a military coup. Benazir
kept in solitary confinement.
1988
Became first woman prime
minister of an Islamic nation.
Held peace summit with RajivGandhi. Was deposed in 1990.
1993Became prime minister again.Brother Murtaza Bhutto killed in 1996. Dismissed on
corruption charges in 1996.
1998Went to Dubai on a self
imposed exile. Found guilty of corruption in 1999 along
with husband Asif Ali Zardari.
2007
Returned in October and
survived a suicide bombing in Karachi. Was killed on
December 27 at Rawalpindi.
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