Benazir Bhutto; 21 June 1953 ? 27 December 2007 was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan for two non-consecutive terms between 1988?90 and then 1993?96. A scion of the politically powerful Bhutto family, she was the eldest daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister himself who founded the centre-left, social-democratic Pakistan Peoples Party. She holds the status of being the first woman leader of a Muslim country. In 1982, three years after her father's assassination, 29-year-old Benazir Bhutto became the chairperson of the PPP?a political party, making her the first woman in Pakistan to head a major political party. In 1988, she became the first woman to be elected as the head of an Islamic state's government; she also remains Pakistan's only female prime minister. Noted for her charismatic authority and political astuteness, Bhutto drove initiatives for Pakistan's economy and national security, and she implemented social-capitalist policies for industrial development and growth. 

June 21st, 1953 in Karachi  /  Died:   Dec 27th, 2007 - aged 54