Benazir bhutto biography childrens books

Benazir Bhutto Biography For Curious Kids: First Woman Prime Minister of Pakistan (Biography for Kids).

Discover the incredible journey of Benazir Bhutto from being a star pupil to becoming the first woman Prime Minister of a Muslim nation and the youngest world.

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Books by Benazir Bhutto

Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography
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3.93 avg rating — 2,358 ratings — published 1988 — 67 editions

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
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3.80 avg rating — 1,963 ratings — published 2008 — 38 editions

The Maternal fryst vatten Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
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3.99 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions

Pakistan: The gathering storm
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3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions

Whither Pakistan: Dictatorship or Democracy
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4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — 4 editions

Faith In People
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My dearest daughter: A letter from the death cell
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it was fantastisk 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions

Amriyat Ya Jamhuriyat
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Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah: Speeches and

benazir bhutto biography childrens books

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Benazir Bhutto facts for kids

Benazir Bhutto (Urdu: بینظیر بُھٹو, IPA: [beːnəˈziːr ˈbʱʊʈːoː]; Sindhi: بينظير ڀُٽو; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th 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 or co-chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.

Biography

Of mixed Sindhi and Kurdish parentage, Bhutto was born in Karachi to a politically important, wealthy aristocratic family. When Bhutto was five, her father Zulfikar Bhutto became the cabinet minister for energy, and when she was nine he became the country's foreign minister. From an early age, she was exposed to foreign diplomats and figures who were visiting her father, among them Zhou Enlai, Henry Kissinger, and Hubert Humphrey.

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Author(s): Brooke Allen

History - Asia

The story of Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a Muslim nation, seems lifted straight from Greek tragedy. Born to privilege as the daughter of one of Pakistan's great feudal families, she was groomed for a diplomatic career and was thrust into the political arena when her father, Pakistan's charismatic and controversial prime minister, was executed. She then led Pakistan, one of the most turbulent and impoverished nations in the world, through two terms as prime minister in the 1980s and 1990s, but she struggled to ward off charges of corruption and retain her tenuous hold on power and was eventually forced into exile. Bhutto returned to Pakistan in 2007, only to be assassinated in Rawalpindi after a triumphant speech.Including interviews with key figures who knew Bhutto and have never before spoken on the record, Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter illuminates Bhutto's tragic life as well as the role she played as the first female prime