Benazir Bhutto:Address at the Fourth WorldConference on Women

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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-197

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The first woman to lead a modern Islamic country, Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) was elected prime minister of Pakistan in 1988. Bhutto becamethe head of the Pakistan People’s Party when her father, Zulfikar Bhutto, who had founded the party and led Pakistan from 1971 to 1977, was executed in 1979. After the death of the previous prime minister, Benazir Bhutto was elected to the first of her two terms in 1988 and served until her defeat in the election of 1990.

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