Bhutto - You Can't Murder a Legacy

Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from November 1988 until October 1990, and 1993 until her final dismissal on November 1996. She was the eldest daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister of Pakistan and the founder of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which she led.¹

Educated at Harvard and Oxford, and with an eye on a foreign service career, Benazir’s life changed forever when her father, Pakistan’s first democratically elected president, chose Benazir to carry his political mantle over the family’s eldest son. In the late 70’s, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was overthrown and executed by his handpicked Army Chief, Benazir swore to avenge her father and restore democracy — or to die trying.²

After nine years of self-exile, she returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007, after having reached an understanding with President Pervez Musharraf, by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a bombing on 27 December 2007, after leaving PPP's last rally in the city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled 2008 general election in which she was a leading opposition candidate. The following year, she was named one of seven winners of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. ¹

Benazir Bhutto was the first woman Prime Minister in Pakistan. As one of the largest and diverse Muslim countries in the world, being a woman Prime Minister should have many of challenges. Breaking the traditions of men in the government and parliamentary. She had fought since the fall of his father’s regime. The coup president intimidated her family since the beginning. She even was sent to jail for several time. The last was 6 month imprisoned her under solitary confinement in a desert cell .

That was a risk of a struggle. In another way, to achieve a goal, we need to pay a price. We must prepare as a leader the plan and the risk. After that, we decide it wisely. She was the Iron Lady of Pakistan. She leave a lots of legacies to the world.

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^{(1) Wikipedia, "Benazir Bhutto" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto
(2) Bhutto the Film,  http://www.bhuttofilm.com/synopsis.html}