• Benazir Bhutto was born June 21, 1953, in Karachi, Pakistan. The meaning of her name is "one without equal."
• She was the eldest child in the family of former
president of Pakistan Julfikar Ali Bhutto.
•Her nick name was Pinkie. This name was given to her by her family because she was an unusually pink baby.
• She attended Catholic schools in Pakistan. She completed her higher studies from Harvard University's Radcliffe College and Oxford University. She was the first Asian woman to be elected president of the Oxford Union.
• After graduation from Oxford, Bhutto
returned to Pakistan hoping to enter the Foreign Service in the government headed by her father, who was prime minister that time.
• Her father Julfikar Ali Bhutto was deposed in a 1977 due to the charges of corruption and misusing his powers and executed in 1979. After that, Benazir went to Britain.
•Initially She did not want to come in politics but after her father’s execution in 1979, she inherited the leadership of the PPP under military ruler General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq.
• In 1986, Bhutto returned to Pakistan from exile in Britain and welcomed by such large crowds that it took her march 9½ hours to travel the 8 miles from the airport to a rally site in Lahore.
• Bhutto was married to Asif Ali Ardari, a wealthy businessman. The marriage was arranged by her mother; Bhutto did not meet her future husband until five days before their engagement.
• In 1988, Bhutto became the first woman president in the history of Pakistan. She elected as a president twice in 1988 and in 1993.
• In 1988, The People Magazine included her, among the 50 most beautiful people of the world. That time Benazir was 35 years old.
• Bhutto returned to Pakistan on 18 December 2007 after eight years of self-imposed exile. • Bhutto once mentioned that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Britain's "Iron Lady," was her role model.
• In 2006, Bhutto joined an Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy with her arch-rival Sharif, but the two disagreed over strategy for dealing with Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, who had seized power in a 1999 coup. She decided it was better to negotiate with Mr Musharraf, while Mr Sharif refused to have any dealings with the general
• Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, the city in which her father was hanged in 1979.
• After the death of Benazir, her son Bilawal elected as chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
• There are many books written about Benazir such as Benazir Bhutto (1989), Daughter of the East, Daughter of Destiny: an Autobiography etc.
• Recently, MSN, a popular website declared Benazir Bhutto the 2nd most powerful woman in the world after Rodham Clinton.
• There is a similarity between Benazir Bhutto’s family, Gandhi Family of India and Canady family of America that most of the member of these families did not die natural but killed or executed.
• Number 9 proved unlucky for Benazir. She was born on in 1953. Shemarried on 18 December and her marriage was most affected by her political career. She went into self-imposed exile in Dubai in 1998, which adds up to 27 and then the dreaded 9. She returned back on 18 December 2007, the sum of 18 and 2007 is also 9. She assassinated on 27 December. She was 54 years old when killed in Rawalpindi.