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25 unusual facts about Benazir Bhutto


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Benazir Bhutto Addresses the Pakistani community as part of Independence Day celebrations, 17 August 2003

Ameer Faisal Alavi

Mehsud, was the main suspect in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

Amjad Ali Noon

He was also Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Pakistan to Rwanda, Ethiopia and Uganda under the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government of Benazir Bhutto (1989–90).

Aseff Ahmad Ali

He was the foreign minister of Pakistan in the cabinet of Benazir Bhutto during her second tenure as Prime Minister.

Bruce McKenna

He has written many articles on the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Pakistan, and has interviewed Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Cadet College Larkana

The college was formally inaugurated in 1994 by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.

Christina Lamb

Her first major interview was with Benazir Bhutto in London in 1987 where subsequently she was then invited to her wedding in Pakistan later that year.

Daniel Berehulak

After covering Iraq and Chernobyl, he has recently been concerned with Pakistan, where he interviewed Benazir Bhutto shortly before her death, and India, including the elections.

Donna Foote

While based in London she reported on the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, tensions in the Middle East, the troubles in Northern Ireland, Diana, Princess of Wales and the British Royal Family, and UK politics and culture.

Duquesne Club

Among notable guest to the club are U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as well as Colin Powell and Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Ghulam Ali Allana

His son, Pyar Ali Allana, is a politician and was a member of the parliament during Benazir Bhutto's era as the prime minister of the country.

Ginny Dougary

Ginny Dougary was shortlisted as Interviewer of the Year in 2009 and 2010 for her interviews with Benazir Bhutto, Norman Tebbit, and Ian McKellen.

Hossein Shariatmadari

For example, in 2009, during the first contested presidential elections, Shariatmadari was announced that Mohammad Khatami would risk the same fate of Benazir Bhutto if he was elected.

Imran Ullah Khan

General Imran Ullah Khan retired from the Army in May 1991 having put in 36 years of commissioned service and in May 1994, he was appointed as the Governor of Balochistan by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Javid Husain

During this period, he was responsible for arranging the bilateral visit of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to South Korea from 22–24 July 1996.

John Vause

Vause has covered some of the biggest international stories in the 2000s; when he was based in Beijing, he reported around the region, including stories such as the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan.

Kashmakash

Many thought the image was an indictment of the corrupt Pakistani political elite, and especially of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Khalid Ahmed Khan Kharal

He was considered a close confidant of Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.

Pakistan Naval Academy

In 1990, Prime minister Benazir Bhutto signed an executive decree providing for the Bachelor of Science Degree for the Naval, Military, and Coast Guard Academies.

Pakistani general election, 1993

After winning the support of minor parties and independents the leader of the PPP, Benazir Bhutto, was elected Prime Minister by the National Assembly.

Qari Saifullah Akhtar

According to the Dawn newspaper, Akhtar was arrested in Lahore on February 26, 2008 for his alleged involvement in the attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Karachi on October 18, 2007.

Saggy Tahir

Tahir held that Pakistani Americans should stop hoping for the return of Pakistan's ex-Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto (now deceased) and Nawaz Sharif (who was exiled to Saudi Arabia after Pervez Musharraf's coup).

Sayed Jalal

He operates within a network of influence that once included Benazir Bhutto.

SGS S.A.

Most often alleged is a payment to the husband of then Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari.

Syed Munir Hussain Gilani

Syed Munir Hussain Gilani closely worked with the father of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, ZULFIQAR ALI BHUTTO in his election campaign of 1972.


Jam Saqi case

Defence witnesses: Top poliitcal leadership including Ms Benazir Bhutto, Mir Ghaus Bux Bezinjo, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Maulana Shah Mohammed Amroti, Mairaj Mohammed Khan, Fatehyab Ali Khan, among the journalists Minhaj Burna, Afzal Siddiqui, Shaikh Ali Mohammed, Shaikh Aziz, Abdullah. J Memon then commissioner, Abdul Ghani Dars (Journalist) and others appeared as defence witnesses.

Libya–Pakistan relations

The new general elections in 1993 revived the comeback of PPP under Benazir Bhutto who was immediately sworned as Prime Minister.

Mahmood Shaam

In his journalistic life he has interviewed the national and international leaders as like Yasir Arafat, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Indira Gandhi, Sheikh Mujeeb-ur-Rehman, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, Tun Abdul Razak, Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf.

Miangul Asfandyar Amir Zeb

Asfandyar Amir Zeb,(اسفندىاراميرزيب) Gujjar (1965-2007),s assasination(December 12, 2007) was the first high profile killing by the Taliban militant of Swat a few day after the killing of Benazir Bhutto.

Muhammad Farooq

He also covered the activities of ex-Presidents of Pakistan Wasim Sajjad (ex-Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan), Sardar Farooq Laghari, ex-Prime ministers of Pakistan, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Leader of Pakistan Muslim League N), Benazir Bhutto (ex-Chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party), Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Ex Chief Ministers of Baluchistan Sardar Akhtar Mengal, Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali and others leaders.

Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations

The current ambassador is Hussain Haroon, who was appointed by the PPP-led coalition in July 2008 after the dismissal of veteran Munir Akram because he opposed seeking United Nations help to interrogate Benazir Bhutto's assassination.

Saima Mohsin

Mohsin has interviewed world famous celebrities and leaders from Tom Cruise to Tony Blair, Amitabh Bachchan to Benazir Bhutto.

Zaigham Zaidi

He had also been the personal photographer of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto when they held the office of prime minister.

Zardari family

Hakim Zardari was also a Member of National Assembly in 70's on the ticket of Pakistan Peoples Party but came into more prominence after the marriage of Benazir Bhutto with Asif Zardari.