Commemorating Benazir Bhutto’s 68th birthday

Today is the 68th birthday of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Benazir served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan for two consecutive terms from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996.

She is the first female prime minister in the Muslim world.

Celebrations will be held in different cities, including Karachi.

The former prime minister’s son Birawar Bhutto will cut a cake at the Sindh Provincial Assembly today to commemorate his mother.

The Chief Minister of Sindh Province Murad Ali Shah posted a video message tribute to Benazir on his Twitter account.

In the video message, CM Shah said that Benazir is a great and brave leader of the subcontinent. “Mohtarma sacrificed her life to restore democracy in this country, and I am proud that my political training was done by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto,” he said.

Tribute to poets from all over the world

Poets from Pakistan, India, Europe, the United States, Canada, the Middle East and other countries gave their speeches at the event called “Dukhtar-e-Mashriq Ka Jashn-e-Benazir (Eastern Benazir’s Daughter Festival)” in Brussels. Benazir pays tribute.

mushaira is hosted by the famous poet and playwright Tanveer Anjum. The main guest is Anis Harlan, a human rights scholar, hosted by Dubai poet and host Ayesha Sheikh Ashi.

Other famous poets involved include human rights activist Attiya Daud, Tasneem Abidi of Houston, USA, Dr. Sarwat Zahra of Dubai, Tasneem Jowhar of Hyderabad, India, Dr. Ishrat Mooin Seema of Berlin, Germany, Dr. Hina Ambereen Tariq of Canada, Dr. Hina Abbas from Aligarh, India, Kulsoom Zaib and Ashbar Jadoon from Peshawar, Samia Naz Malik from Faisalabad, etc.

Benazir Bhutto’s profile

Benazir is a Pakistani democratic socialist who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan twice from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).

In 1982, the 29-year-old Benazir became the chairman of the PPP, which made her the first woman to lead a major political party in Pakistan. In 1988‚ she became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state and was also Pakistan’s first (and thus far‚ only) female prime minister. Security initiatives and implemented industrial development and growth policies.

Due to economic recession, corruption, and high unemployment, Benazir’s reputation declined, which later led to the dissolution of her government by then-President Ghulam Ishak Khan.

In 1993, after the 1993 parliamentary elections, Benazir Bhutto was re-elected for a second term. In 1996, she was also respectedly called BB, and the corruption charges against her led to the eventual dissolution of her government by President Farouk Lehari. Benazir admitted defeat in the 1997 parliamentary elections and was exiled in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 1998.

After nine years of self-exile, she returned to Pakistan on October 18, 2007. After reaching an understanding with Pervez Musharraf, she was granted an amnesty and dropped all corruption charges.

Benazir was assassinated in an explosion on December 27, 2007, when she was the main opposition in the last gathering of the PPP in Rawalpindi two weeks before the scheduled Pakistan election in 2008. candidate.

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