BHUTTO BENAZIR: (1953-2007) Pakistani Politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan 1988-90 & 1993-96. ...

BHUTTO BENAZIR: (1953-2007) Pakistani Politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan 1988-90 & 1993-96. Assassinated. Bhutto was the first woman to head a democratic government in a country with Muslim majority. She is widely regarded as an icon for women´s rights due to her political success in a male-dominated society. Unusual colour signed 4 x 6 photograph `Benazir Bhutto´, the image showing the Pakistani politician in a head and shoulders pose, greeting her followers raising her hand. Signed in blue ink to a clear area of the image, also dated 6th February 1987 in her hand. Cleanly affixed to a larger 8 x 12 red card. VG Benazir Bhutto´s father, Zulfikar Bhutto (1928-1979), also served as Prime Minister of Pakistan 1973-77, and before that as President of Pakistan 1971-73. During his mandate as Prime Minister, he was arrested after a military coup in July 1977. He was imprisoned and sentenced to death, and after a long trial, he was executed by hanging. Benazir Bhutto´s brother, Murtaza Bhutto (1954-1996) was also assassinated, shot on a police encounter. He was a politician and leader of Al-Zulfiqar, a left-wing organization he founded after his father´s execution. After claiming responsibility for a murder and a hijacking airplane he had to go into exile and was sentenced to death in absentia by a military tribunal. When he returned to Pakistan in 1993, he was arrested for terrorism on the orders of her sister and Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but later released on bail.