Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was paid glowing tribute on her 59th birth anniversary to commemorate her fight for the rights of the people and democracy. Special prayers were held at her grave in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, where PPP leaders and workers laid wreaths and donated blood to mark the day. Benazir was born on June 21, 1953, in Karachi, to former PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. She inherited the PPP leadership after a military coup overthrew her father’s government. She won the election in 1988, becoming the first female prime minister of a Muslim nation. After completing her early education in Pakistan, she pursued higher education in the United States. From 1969 to 1973, she attended Radcliff College and then Harvard University, where she graduated with a bachelors degree in comparative government. She then went to the United Kingdom to study at Oxford from 1973 to 1977. There, she completed a course in International Law and Diplomacy. She moved to England in 1984, becoming the joint leader in exile of the PPP. She returned to Pakistan on April 10, 1986, to launch a nationwide campaign for ‘open elections’. She married a wealthy landowner, Asif Ali Zardari, in Karachi on December 18, 1987. The couple had three children, Bilawal, Bakhtawar and Aseefa. Bhutto returned to Pakistan on October 18, 2007, but was killed when an assassin fired shots and then blew himself up after an election campaign rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. The special prayers at the mausoleum of the Bhutto family in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto were attended among others by PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Yousaf Raza Gilani and Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali. In Lahore, the Pakistan People’s Party Minorities Wing held special prayers for the late party chief. Minorities leader Napolean Qayyum said the minorities of the country had special regard for the martyred PPP leader as she had always strived to ensure the protection of rights of the marginalized communities of Pakistan. “On her birthday, minorities belonging to all faiths pray for the departed soul of Shaheed Benazir and pray that the country comes out of the present crises. Pakistan is our motherland and we are ready to give our blood for it as has our dear leader,” he said.
Yes. Benazir Bhutto will be remembered as a W H O R E who started the tradition of mega corruption in Pakistan. There is not one single accomplishment that can be named which was good for Pakistan. Even the person she married shows her own character. I hope there is load shedding in hell so she knows what it feels like to burn.
@Daddy, while there is no doubt that she along with her husband Asif Zardari are responsibly for the worst of corruption, cruelty to Pakistani people, however now that shes dead, shes paying for crimes.
However, lets be respectful of the dead & leave her be, its Zardari who needs to be brought in line & made to pay every penny back to the Pakistani people.
@Grazer, you are right. She's dead and probably paying for her sins already. However, we are also paying for her sins and we had nothing to do with it. PPP wants to make her out to be a martyr for democracy but the truth is that she died in her lust for power. Zardari is proving to be a tough cookie. He has managed to keep his name out of any corruption charges or allegations for the last four years even though we all know that there is no way that he is not getting a cut from every single corruption case. I guess we need to focus on him more to get rid of him now.
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