Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996.
196 Facts About Benazir Bhutto
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Benazir Bhutto was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.
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Benazir Bhutto studied at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, where she was President of the Oxford Union.
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Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in 1977, shortly before her father was ousted in a military coup and executed.
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Benazir Bhutto's administration was accused of corruption and nepotism and dismissed by Khan in 1990.
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Intelligence services rigged that year's election to ensure a victory for the conservative Islamic Democratic Alliance, at which point Benazir Bhutto became Leader of the Opposition.
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Benazir Bhutto was buried at her family mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Baksh.
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Benazir Bhutto was often criticised as being politically inexperienced, was accused of being corrupt, and faced much opposition from Pakistan's Islamist lobby for her secularist and modernising agenda.
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Benazir Bhutto was born at Pinto's Nursing Home on 21 June 1953 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
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Benazir Bhutto's father was the politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and her mother was Begum Nusrat Ispahani.
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Some say that Benazir Bhutto is descended from the Arains, a Muslim tribe of Punjab, who have a subclan called Bhutta, and they claim to be descended from the Arabs who entered India in AD 712 while others say that Benazir is descended from the Rajputs.
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The couple had married in September 1951, and Benazir Bhutto was their first child.
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Benazir Bhutto was given the name of an aunt who had died young.
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Benazir Bhutto's mother taught her some Persian as a child.
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Benazir Bhutto initially attended the Lady Jennings Nursery School in Karachi.
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Benazir Bhutto was then sent to the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Karachi and from there to the Jesus and Mary Convent, a boarding school in Murree.
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Benazir Bhutto moved to Iran, but after Zulfikar prevented her children from joining her there, she returned to Pakistan six months later, settling in Karachi.
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When Benazir Bhutto was five, her father became the cabinet minister for energy, and when she was nine he became the country's foreign minister.
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Amid riots against the government of President Ayub Khan, in 1968 Zulfikar was arrested and imprisoned for three months, during which he wrote to Benazir Bhutto to encourage her studies.
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From 1969 to 1973, Benazir Bhutto studied for an undergraduate degree at Radcliffe College, Harvard University.
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Benazir Bhutto started when she was sixteen, which was younger than normal, but Zulfikar had pulled strings to allow her premature admittance.
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Benazir Bhutto found it difficult adjusting to life in the United States.
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Benazir Bhutto became a campus tour guide with the Crimson Key Society and the social secretary of her dormitory, Eliot House.
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Benazir Bhutto involved herself in campaigns against American involvement in the Vietnam War, joining a Moratorium Day protest on Boston Common.
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Benazir Bhutto encountered activists involved in second wave feminism although was sceptical of some of the views expressed within the movement.
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In 1972, Benazir Bhutto accompanied her father to the India-Pakistan Summit in Simla as a replacement for her mother, who was ill.
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Benazir Bhutto nevertheless made friends, who later described her as a humorous and intellectually curious individual.
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Benazir Bhutto's campaign was opposed by counter-protests, who believed that her father's supposed involvement in the persecution of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and atrocities during the Bangladesh Liberation War made him unsuitable.
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In later years, Benazir Bhutto acknowledged that at this time she had been ignorant of the Pakistani Army's complicity in the atrocities in Bangladesh, although always maintained that her father was blameless on the issue.
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When she was able, Benazir Bhutto visited her father in prison.
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Benazir Bhutto assisted in the preparation of his defence case, which was put before first the Lahore High Court, which sentenced him to death, and then the Supreme Court, which upheld that decision.
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Benazir Bhutto was kept for a time in Karachi before being moved to Sukkur prison and then back again to Karachi.
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From Geneva, Benazir Bhutto proceeded to the United Kingdom, undergoing surgery on her mastoid before renting a flat in London's Barbican Estate.
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Benazir Bhutto's flat became the unofficial headquarters of its members in exile; these volunteers devoted themselves to raising international awareness of the political prisoners being held by Zia's regime.
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Murtaza believed that it was he, and not Benazir Bhutto, who was their father's designated political heir; as evidence, he cited that he had been asked to manage his father's Larkana constituency in the 1977 general election.
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Benazir Bhutto nevertheless maintained that her father had always wanted her to become a politician.
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Benazir Bhutto varyingly claimed that Shahnawaz had been murdered by his wife, Raehana, or had been killed on the orders of Zia.
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In December 1985, martial law was lifted in Pakistan and Benazir Bhutto decided to return home.
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Benazir Bhutto arrived at Lahore Airport in April 1986, where she was greeted by a large crowd.
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Benazir Bhutto was from a landowning family, and his father had obtained additional wealth through the construction and cinema industries.
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Benazir Bhutto would have been aware that being married gave her an image of respectability which would improve her chances of being elected.
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Benazir Bhutto kept the Bhutto family name rather than taking that of her new husband.
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Benazir Bhutto sought to hinder her chances by declaring that the election would be held on a non-party basis, with candidates standing as individuals rather than as representatives of a political party.
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Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan on 2 December 1988.
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Benazir Bhutto became the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country, as well as Pakistan's second nationally elected Prime Minister.
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Benazir Bhutto personally stated that her electoral victory was "the tipping point in the debate raging in the Muslim world on the role of women in Islam".
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In 1988, Benazir Bhutto published her autobiography, sub-titled Daughter of the East in its British edition and Daughter of Destiny in the United States.
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Benazir Bhutto appointed herself as the new treasury minister, with her mother as a senior minister without portfolio, and her father-in-law as chairman of the parliamentary public accounts committee, quashing hopes that her administration would depart from the entrenched systems of cronyism in the country.
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Benazir Bhutto removed many of the constraints imposed on non-governmental organisations, and introduced measures to lift the media censorship introduced by Zia's military administrations.
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Benazir Bhutto entrusted Shamsul Hasan with dismantling the National Press Trust, a conglomerate of over 15 newspapers, but President Khan delayed signing the documents and thus the Trust would only be broken up during her second premiership.
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Benazir Bhutto pledged that she would take tough action on the powerful drug barons.
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Benazir Bhutto succeeded in getting Khan's approval to change two of the country's four provincial governors; she appointed General Tikka Khan, one of the few senior military officers who were loyal to her, as the Governor of Punjab.
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Benazir Bhutto sought to replace the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey, but President Khan refused to permit this.
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Benazir Bhutto disliked Khan's hostile attitude toward her, but he had the backing of the military.
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Benazir Bhutto wanted to replace Mahbub ul Haq as a finance minister, but again the military opposed her.
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Benazir Bhutto made efforts to cultivate good relationships with the leaders of Islamic countries who had good relationships with her father, including Libya's Gaddafi, Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Zayed, and the Saudi royal family.
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Benazir Bhutto initially attempted to improve relations with neighbouring India, withdrawing Zia's offer of a no-war pact and announcing the 1972 Simla Agreement as the basis of future relations.
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Benazir Bhutto invited Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia as her guests for a three-day visit in Islamabad following the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit.
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Benazir Bhutto claimed that she terminated support for Sikh separatists active in India, something which Zia had encouraged to destabilise Indian control in their half of the Punjab.
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Amid growing Kashmiri protests against Indian rule, in interviews Benazir Bhutto expressed support for the Kashmiri Muslim community.
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Benazir Bhutto called on the United Nations to oversee the Kashmir plebiscite originally promised in 1948.
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Benazir Bhutto visited a training camp for pro-independence Kashmiris on the Pakistani side of the border and pledged $5 million for their cause; she followed this with further statements in support of the pro-independence groups.
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Later, in a 1993 interview, Benazir Bhutto stated that supporting proxy wars in Punjab and Kashmir was the "one right thing" undertaken by Zia, presenting these in part as revenge for India's role in "the humiliating loss of Bangladesh".
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In 1990, Major General Pervez Musharraf proposed a military invasion of Kargil as part of an attempt to annex Kashmir; Benazir Bhutto refused to back the plan, believing that the international condemnation would be severe.
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Benazir Bhutto convinced Pakistan to step back from hostilities and to disband the Kashmiri training camps in its territory.
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William's revelations came as a shock to Benazir Bhutto, who was unaware of how advanced Pakistan's nuclear development had become.
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Benazir Bhutto did not repeal the Hudood Ordinances, which remained in law until 2006.
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Benazir Bhutto was accused of receiving kickbacks and gained the nickname "Mr Ten Percent".
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In 1990, Benazir Bhutto gave birth to her first daughter, Bakhtawar.
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The unemployment and labour strikes began to take place which halted and jammed the economic wheel of the country, and Benazir Bhutto was unable to solve these issues due to the cold war with the President.
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Benazir Bhutto claimed that this was necessary owing to her government's corruption and inability to maintain law and order.
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Benazir Bhutto was convicted and remained in prison for three years.
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Benazir Bhutto subsequently accused Sharif of backing the Salafi jihadist militant group Al Qaeda, established by bin Laden.
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Benazir Bhutto promised price supports for agriculture, pledged a partnership between government and business, and campaigned strongly for the female vote.
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In February 1993, Benazir Bhutto gave birth to her daughter, Asifa.
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Benazir Bhutto was again prime minister, but this time had a weaker parliamentary mandate than she had had in 1988.
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Benazir Bhutto was officially sworn in on 19 October 1993.
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Zardari was freed from prison after Benazir Bhutto returned to office in 1993.
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In 1993, Benazir Bhutto declared that her family burial ground would be converted into an official mausoleum and would undergo significant expansion.
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Benazir Bhutto dropped the first architect she employed to do the job after deciding that she wanted a more Islamic design; she replaced him with Waqar Akbar Rizvi, instructing him to visit the tombs of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Ruhollah Khomeini for inspiration.
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Benazir Bhutto spent much of her second term abroad, making 24 foreign trips during its first twelve months.
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Benazir Bhutto was a founding member of the Council of Women World Leaders, a group established in 1996.
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Benazir Bhutto oversaw the creation of a women's division in the government, headed by a senior female civil servant, as well as a women's bank.
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Benazir Bhutto opened a series of all-female police stations, staffed with female officers, to make women feel safer in coming forward to report crimes.
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Benazir Bhutto stated that once back in the office, she asked for reasons why the Kahuta enrichment plant had broken her command by producing weapons-grade uranium and implemented a new system of security at the plant to provide greater oversight of the facility's scientists.
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Benazir Bhutto later claimed that on her 1993 visit to North Korea, she secretly carried a computer CD containing nuclear data, although she subsequently retracted this claim.
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Benazir Bhutto made a state visit to the US in 1995, where she convinced Congress to repeal sanctions that they had imposed on Pakistan over its nuclear weapons programme in 1990.
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Benazir Bhutto's government was one of only three countries to recognize it as the legitimate Afghan government, a move that further distanced it from its Western allies.
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Benazir Bhutto was prime minister at a time of great racial tension in Pakistan.
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Suvorova suggested that Benazir Bhutto had allowed this as a concession to those, including President Leghari and the Sindhi Chief Minister Syed Abdullah Ali Shah, who insisted that Murtaza face criminal proceedings for his militant activities.
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Benazir Bhutto hung a picture of Zardari up in the guest toilet of his house as an act of disrespect to his brother-in-law.
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When Benazir Bhutto tried to attend her brother's funeral in Larkana, local Murtaza supporters pelted her car with rocks.
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Benazir Bhutto initially blamed the killing on a conspiracy against her family; she suggested that President Leghari had been involved, in an act designed to destabilise her government.
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Benazir Bhutto brought in Scotland Yard to investigate, partly to quell rumors that she had ordered the killing, although the case remained unsolved.
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In confidential official documents Benazir Bhutto had objected to the number of Urdu speaking class in 1993 elections, in the context that she had no Urdu-speaking sentiment in her circle and discrimination was continued even in her government.
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Benazir Bhutto expanded the authoritative rights of Police Combatant Force and the provisional governments that tackled the local opposition aggressively.
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Benazir Bhutto was an economist by profession; therefore during her terms as prime minister, she herself took charge of the Ministry of Finance.
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Benazir Bhutto disagreed with her father's nationalisation and socialist economics.
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Benazir Bhutto promised to end the nationalisation programme and to carry out the industrialisation programme by means other than state intervention; however, Benazir Bhutto did not carry out the denationalisation program or liberalisation of the economy during her first government.
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Benazir Bhutto attributed this economic inequality to be a result of ongoing and continuous illegal Bangladeshi immigration.
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Benazir Bhutto ordered a crackdown on and deportation of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
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Religious parties criticised Benazir Bhutto and dubbed the crackdown as anti-Islamic.
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On many occasions, Benazir Bhutto resisted to privatise globally competitive and billion-dollar-worth state-owned enterprises, instead the grip of nationalisation in those state-owned enterprises was tightened in order to secure the capital investment of these industries.
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In 1993 Benazir Bhutto ordered Musharraf, then Director-General of the Pakistani Army's Directorate-General for the Military Operation, to join her state visit to the United States, unusual and unconventional participation.
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Benazir Bhutto strengthened relations with its most important partner communist China, and repeatedly visited Beijing for mutual trade and international political co-operation the two countries.
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In 1995, Benazir Bhutto made another state visit to the United States and held talks with US President Bill Clinton.
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Benazir Bhutto urged him to revise the Pressler Amendment and launch a campaign against extremism.
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Benazir Bhutto criticised US nonproliferation policy and demanded that the United States honor its contractual obligation.
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When this news reached Benazir Bhutto, she responded by high-alerting the Air Force Strategic Command.
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Benazir Bhutto responded by deploying Shaheen-I missiles; however, they were not armed.
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Benazir Bhutto permitted the PAF to deploy the Crotale missile defence and the Anza-Mk-III near the Indian border, which escalated the conflict, but effectively kept the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force from launching any surprise attack.
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Benazir Bhutto put the country's nuclear arsenal programme on high-alert made emergency preparations, and ordered the Pakistani armed forces to remain on high-alert.
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In 1996, Benazir Bhutto met with Japanese officials and warned India about conducting nuclear tests.
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Benazir Bhutto revealed for the first time that Pakistan had achieved parity with India in its capacity to produce nuclear weapons and their delivery capability.
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Benazir Bhutto told the Indian press, that Pakistan "cannot afford to negate the parity we maintain with India".
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Benazir Bhutto issued a statement on the tests and told the international press that she condemned the Indian nuclear tests.
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Benazir Bhutto ratcheted up her policy on Indian Kashmir, rallying against India.
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At an Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting at the United Nations, Benazir Bhutto, who was accompanied by her Speaker Yousaf Raza Gillani upset and angered the Indian delegation, headed by prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, with vehement criticism of India.
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Benazir Bhutto appointed Admiral Saeed Mohammad Khan as Chief of Naval Staff; General Abbas Khattak as Chief of Air Staff.
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Benazir Bhutto enjoyed strong relations with the Pakistan Armed Forces, and President who was hand-picked by her did not question her authority.
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Benazir Bhutto hand-picked officers and promoted them based on their pro-democracy views while the President gave constitutional authorisation for their promotion.
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Unlike Nawaz Sharif's second democratic term, Benazir Bhutto worked with the military on many issues where the military disagreement, solving many problems relating directly to civil-military relations.
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Benazir Bhutto ordered General Abdul Waheed Kakar and the Lieutenant-General Javed Ashraf Qazi director-general of ISI, to start a sting and manhunt operation to hunt down the ringmaster, Ramzi Yousef.
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In 1995, Benazir Bhutto appointed Admiral Mansurul Haq as the Chief of Naval Staff, as the Admiral had personal contacts with the Benazir Bhutto's family.
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Benazir Bhutto nevertheless maintained that the country's economic problems were the fault of Sharif's previous administration.
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Benazir Bhutto added the suspicion that Bhutto had been involved in her brother's death.
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Benazir Bhutto removed the constitution's Eighth Amendment which had been used by successive presidents to oust both Bhutto and himself from office.
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In 1998, India tested its first nuclear weapon; Benazir Bhutto responded with an editorial for the Los Angeles Times in which she argued that the international community should go further than imposing economic sanctions on India, but should launch a preemptive bomb strike on India's nuclear facilities.
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Benazir Bhutto called on Sharif to retaliate with a series of Pakistani military tests.
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Benazir Bhutto observed the conflict from abroad, describing it as "Pakistan's biggest blunder".
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Benazir Bhutto was in London at the time of the judgment, and rather than returning to Pakistan she relocated to Dubai.
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Benazir Bhutto decided on Dubai because Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates, had been a longstanding friend of her family.
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Benazir Bhutto brought her mother and three children to live there with her, settling into a villa in the Emirates Hills given to her by the Emirati government.
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Benazir Bhutto claimed that were she to return to Pakistan then she would be imprisoned and then murdered.
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Benazir Bhutto remained in Dubai for eight years, for five of which her husband remained imprisoned in Pakistan.
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Benazir Bhutto talked about the need for a return to democracy and to respect human rights.
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Benazir Bhutto was a secularist and repealed the Hudood Ordinances, an achievement Bhutto had been unable to make.
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Benazir Bhutto expressed concern that with mainstream politicians removed from Pakistan's political arena, the vacuum would be filled by Islamist extremists.
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Benazir Bhutto flew to New York roughly every three weeks to visit him.
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In 1998, a Swiss magistrate, Daniel Devaud, seized a safe-deposit box containing a $190,000 necklace that Benazir Bhutto had purchased in London's Bond Street the previous year.
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Benazir Bhutto's investigations were followed by a BBC documentary team led by Owen Bennett-Jones.
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Devaud concluded that Benazir Bhutto "knew she was acting in a criminally reprehensible manner by abusing her role in order to obtain for herself and for her husband considerable sums in the interest of her family at the cost of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan".
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Benazir Bhutto was embroiled in a number of cases being pursued by Nawaz Sharif's government in 1997.
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Benazir Bhutto termed those cases as a part of Sharif's plan to eliminate her from politics.
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Benazir Bhutto ignored the summons to travel to Switzerland to serve her sentence.
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Benazir Bhutto challenged the court ruling and secured a retrial which overturned the previous ruling.
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Benazir Bhutto was a client of Mossack Fonseca, whose customer records were disclosed in the Panama Papers leak.
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Henceforth, Benazir Bhutto avoided openly criticizing Sharif as she once had.
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Concerned about the instability of their ally, the US government pushed Musharraf to meet with Benazir Bhutto and come to an arrangement that might strengthen his legitimacy.
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Benazir Bhutto argued that Huntington's theory denied the universality of democratic ideals and created a "self-fulfilling prophecy of fear" whereby it provoked the conflicts that it claimed to predict.
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Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, arriving in Karachi.
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Benazir Bhutto described the main problem facing her country as the clash between "moderation and extremism", and was pessimistic about her safety.
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Benazir Bhutto requested that the US or UK take responsibility for her security, but they refused, and her security detail was instead organised by Musharraf.
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Benazir Bhutto alleged that there were four suicide squads that had been dispatched to eliminate her and that there were key officials in the government involved in the plot; she sent a list naming these officials to Musharraf.
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Benazir Bhutto requested that Musharraf bring in the British Scotland Yard or the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate the crime, but he refused.
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Benazir Bhutto was fatally injured; reports differ as to whether she was hit by bullets or by shrapnel from the explosion.
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Benazir Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital but was clinically dead on arrival and attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.
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The academic Anna Suvorova specified that Benazir Bhutto's assassination created "a real family cult", one which was "fuelled by various apocrypha, rituals, and relics".
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Benazir Bhutto fled to London although, in February 2011, a Rawalpindi court issued a subpoena for him on the grounds that he had not acted on known threats to Bhutto and had provided insufficient security to protect her.
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Benazir Bhutto expressed the view that the original police investigation had been deliberately botched.
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Benazir Bhutto was committed to democracy and modernisation, and believed that the future of the Islamic world lay in the embrace of these processes.
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Bhargava added that, through her education in governance and politics at Harvard and then Oxford, Benazir Bhutto had "a thorough exposure to political theory and practice, in historical perspective as well as in the contemporary setting".
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Benazir Bhutto admired the Thatcherite economic policies pursued by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom; she was, according to biographer Mushtaq Ahmed, a "zealous convert" to privatisation and market economics.
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Benazir Bhutto advocated the creation of an expanded economically and politically stable middle class in Pakistan, believing that this was needed in order to sustain a stable democratic state.
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Benazir Bhutto disagreed with her father's socialist economic policies, and when in power sought to privatise various industries that had been nationalised in the 1970s.
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Lamb described Benazir Bhutto at being skilled in using populist strategies in election campaigns.
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Benazir Bhutto described the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as a political inspiration.
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Suvorova similarly observed that Benazir Bhutto presented herself differently when in the West compared to when she was in Pakistan.
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The journalist Christina Lamb believed that in being raised in a wealthy and aristocratic family, Benazir Bhutto was unable to appreciate the struggles of Pakistan's poorest.
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Bhatia claimed that at Oxford, where he first met her, Benazir Bhutto was spoilt, self-obsessed, and prone to throwing temper tantrums, although at the same time was humorous and generous, willing to pay for her friends' meals whenever at a restaurant.
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In later life, Benazir Bhutto was accused of being addicted to power, although Allen thought it more accurate to state that she was "addicted to adulation", suggesting that this stemmed from a narcissistic element to Benazir Bhutto's personality.
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Benazir Bhutto had her own charisma when she emerged in the 1980s as a young, articulate, well-educated, and well-spoken woman.
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Benazir Bhutto had the rare quality of humor, which she never lost in spite of leading an uncertain and challenging life.
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Benazir Bhutto was too inclined to listen to her small kitchen cabinet, which very often consisted of people who would say what they thought she wanted to hear.
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Benazir Bhutto became prime minister at a particularly young age and had no prior political or other cabinet experience.
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Commentators and biographers have said that Benazir Bhutto shared her father's charisma but his arrogance, and that like him she was impatient with criticism.
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Allen believed that Benazir Bhutto was so dedicated to her father that "psychologically", she was "unable to admit to any imperfection" in him.
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Benazir Bhutto imitated many of her father's mannerisms and his style of speech; the journalist Carla Hall referred to her having a "vaguely British accent".
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Benazir Bhutto was an accomplished orator, having honed her skill at public speaking while president of the Oxford Debating Society.
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Benazir Bhutto's parents gave her the childhood nickname of "Pinkie", possibly alluding to her rosy complexion.
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Benazir Bhutto read a number of self-help books, telling a friend that "for all the lows in my life, those self-help books helped me survive, I can tell you".
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Benazir Bhutto's father had encouraged her to read the writings of various prominent political figures, among them Napoleon Bonaparte, Otto von Bismarck, Vladimir Lenin, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and Mao Zedong.
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Benazir Bhutto had a love of French and Italian cuisine, and was a great fan of the music of American singer Neil Diamond.
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Bhargava stated that Benazir Bhutto was "dedicated and devout in her religious principles but modern and emancipated in her behavior and outlook".
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Benazir Bhutto was anti-abortion and spoke forcefully against abortion, most notably at the 1994 meeting of the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, where she accused the West of "seeking to impose adultery, abortion, intercourse education and other such matters on individuals, societies, and religions which have their own social ethos".
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On returning to Pakistan in 1987, Benazir Bhutto's mother arranged for her marriage to the businessman Asif Ali Zardari.
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Many of her friends were surprised that Benazir Bhutto acquiesced to Islamic tradition given her liberal attitudes she later related that she "felt obligations to my family and my religion" to go through with it and that her high public profile made it difficult for her to find a husband through other means.
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Benazir Bhutto consistently presented an image of respect and loyalty for her husband, throughout the many accusations and periods of imprisonment he faced.
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Allen commented that it would probably never be known how happy the couple's marriage was, for Benazir Bhutto "always projected support and loyalty for her unpopular mate".
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The Benazir Bhutto of 1988 was a uniting figure for her country; that of twenty years later, a divisive one.
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Conservative clerical opponents claimed that by being prime minister, Benazir Bhutto was failing her religious duty, which was to focus her energies on having as many children as possible.
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Ahmed stated that Benazir Bhutto was one of the very few political leaders who had been able to "assume the iconic status of a political martyr in the West while simultaneously evoking strong sentiments in the Muslim world".
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Benazir Bhutto therefore contrasted her with contemporaries like Iraq's Saddam Hussein who were popular domestically but hated in the West, and those like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak who curried favor with Western governments while alienating their domestic audience.
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Benazir Bhutto gained popularity in Western nations in part because she could present herself as being "part of their world", speaking a high standard of English and having been educated at Harvard and Oxford.
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Benazir Bhutto added that as a pioneering female leader, Bhutto had "barely half a dozen" parallels, among them Indira Gandhi, Thatcher, Golda Meir, Chandrika Kumaratunga, and Corazon Aquino.
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Benazir Bhutto became a global icon for women's rights, and inspired many Pakistani girls and women by her example.