First woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation.

Image of Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto ( 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto took place on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Shots were fired at her after a political rally at Liaquat National Bagh, and a suicide bomb was detonated immediately following the shooting.

She was declared dead at 18:16 local time (13:16 UTC), at Rawalpindi General Hospital. Twenty-four other people were killed by the bombing.

 Bhutto had previously survived a similar attempt on her life that killed at least 180 people, after her return from exile two months earlier.