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Biography
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from 1982 until her assassination in 2007.
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Awards & recognition
- United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights · 2008
- Bruno Kreisky Award — Services to Human Rights
