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Daughter of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (a political leader and former Prime Minister) and Nusrat Bhutto (former Member of Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan)
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Aged 16 sent to Harvard University
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1973 Father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, became Prime Minister of Pakistan
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1977 returns to Pakistan. Martial law declared, Bhutto's father is arrested and Benazir is placed under house arrest
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1979 Benazir Bhutto's father is hanged. She becomes leader of Pakistan People's Party. Spends seven years in exile or under house arrest
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April 1986 Bhutto returns to Pakistan
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Married, December, 1987 to Asif Ali Zardari (in business, twice elected Member of National Assembly and Senator)
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Pakistan Peoples Party, Karachi, Pakistan co-chair, beginning in 1986
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Becomes Prime Minister in 1988 but her government is illegally dismissed in August 1990.
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Comes to power after her party won a majority in elections held in October 1993.
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Government once again dismissed illegally in November 1996.
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1996 Bhutto removed from government, now living in exile in UK
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Children: Bilawal; Bakhtwar and Aseefa.
