Bhutto, Benazir (1953-2007)

Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 - 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani-born politician, with Pakistani, Kurdish and Persian Zoroastrian origin, who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990; 1993-1996). She was Pakistan's first female prime minister. She was the eldest child of former Pakistani prime minister Zulfighar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto, and was the wife of later Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.