Workers and supporters of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) celebrated the 68th birthday of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto today (Monday) with simplicity.
PPP Chairperson and the former PM’s son Bilawal Bhutto will cut a birthday cake for Benazir in the Sindh Assembly today. Benazir was assassinated on December 27, 2007 after she had addressed a public gathering in Rawalpindi.
Benazir was a Pakistani democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto‚ a former prime minister of Pakistan and the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
Benazir Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953, in Karachi, Pakistan, the eldest child of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Her first political meeting: A 6-year-old BB introduced to President Ayub Khan in 1959.
Benazir with ZAB and Indian PM Indira Gandhi in 1972.
BB visiting her ancestral village in Larkana in 1974.
Hosting a political show, Encounter, on PTV in 1976.
In 1987, BB married Asif Ali Zardari.
BB taking oath as PM. She was 37 at the time.
1993: After her government was dismissed in 1990, BB was reelected as PM in 1993.
Leader of opposition (1997-99).
BB and Nawaz met in London to sign a ‘charter of democracy.’
BB returned in 2007 to a thunderous welcome in Karachi.
She was killed during a terrorist attack on her convoy shortly after the rally.
