Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhuttowas the 11th and 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms in 1988–90 and then 1993–96. A scion of the politically powerful Bhutto family, she was the eldest daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister who founded the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party. She was the first woman democratically elected as head of a majority Islamic nation...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth21 June 1953
CityKarachi, Pakistan
CountryPakistan
The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.
We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception ...
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
It would be very good if I and Nawaz Sharif could return together but this will be discussed in our meeting.
The Taliban have apparently given refuge to an Arab who is leading a Jihad against the United States and who apparently sponsored the bombings.
We have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court and we hope that when we appeal, the Supreme Court will temporarily stay the sentence until the appeal is heard,
Today's meeting was one of the first steps to our return.
I am here after four years and I see a lot of changes around.
Now, when people are dying, you don't really look at who's offering the help. You take it. The first issue should be to help the people.
We are working on an electoral alliance but will not contest elections under one umbrella.
dangerous, repressive era with a man (Sharif) who has his finger on a nuclear button.