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- NAME: Benazir Bhutto
- OCCUPATION: Prime Minister
- BIRTH DATE: June 21, 1953
- DEATH DATE: December 27, 2007
- EDUCATION: Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Oxford University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Karachi, Pakistan
- PLACE OF DEATH: Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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Benazir Bhutto became the first female prime minister of Pakistan in 1988. She was killed by a suicide bomber in 2007.
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Search for Justice
The quest to identify and prosecute Bhutto's killers took an interesting turn in 2013. Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was placed under house arrest when he returned to the country that April. He has been accused of being part of the assassination plot against Bhutto and charged with not providing Bhutto with adequate security.
Unfortunately, that May, the case suffered a serious setback when its lead prosecutor was murdered. Chaudhry Zulfiqar, with the country's Federal Investigation Agency, was gunned down in his car on his way to a hearing regarding Musharraf. No one claimed responsibility for the killing, but the timing of the attack is believed to be political. Zulfiquar died just days before the Pakistani general elections.
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