Women Benazir Pakistan

Women Benazir Pakistan giving view about Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) a Pakistani born politician, with Pakistani and Kurdish origin, who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan's first and to date only female prime minister. She was the eldest child of former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto, and was the wife of current Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister for the first time in 1988 at the age of 35, but was removed from office 20 months later under the order of then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993 she was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on similar charges, this time by President Farooq Leghari. She went into self-imposed exile in Dubai in 1998. Benazir returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007, after reaching an understanding with President Pervez Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. In November 2007 she gave an interview to David Frost in which she said that Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh murdered Osama bin Laden.

One month later she was assassinated on 27 December 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008 in which she was a leading opposition candidate. The following year she was named one of seven winners of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.

Benazir Policies for Women:

During the election campaigns the Benazir Bhutto government voiced its concern for women's social and health issues, including the issue of discrimination against Pakistan women. Benazir Bhutto announced plans to establish women's police stations, courts, and women's development banks. Despite these plans, Benazir Bhutto did not propose any legislation to improve welfare services for women.

During her election campaigns, she promised to repeal controversial laws (such as Hudood and Zina ordinances) that curtail the rights of Pakistan women. Benazir Bhutto was pro-life and spoke forcefully against abortion, most notably at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, where she accused the West of "seeking to impose adultery, abortion, intercourse education and other such matters on individuals, societies and religions which have their own social ethos." Bhutto was an active and founding member of the Council of Women World Leaders, a network of current and former prime ministers and presidents.