Daughter of the East

'Figlia dell'est' - storia della lotta di Benazir Bhutto per la sua nazione!

Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was daughter of Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. She was the chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party, once the largest political party of the country. Benazir served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation.

Bhutto studied at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, where she was the President of Oxford Union. She was not much involved in politics but when her father was ousted in 1977 military coup, she returned to Pakistan. This event changed her course of life. She and her mother took control of PPP and led the country’s Movement for Restoration of Democracy. PPP won elections in 1988 and Bhutto became the first ever Prime Minister in Muslim country. But her government was accused of corruption and nepotism and finally dismissed by the President.

Bhutto led the PPP to victory in 1993 elections. Her second term oversaw economic privatization and attempts to advance women's rights. Her government was damaged by several controversies. As a consequence, the President again dismissed her government on charges of corruption and mismanagement. Benazir then went into self-exile in Dubai, leading her party from their.

Politics is not clean, especially in third world countries. Anyone can disagree her political thoughts and approach but even her political rivals have a high regard for her sacrifice and struggle for democracy in the country. She had always been a symbol of courage, strength and un-shattered confidence for women in a developing nation like Pakistan. ‘Daughter of the East’ her autobiography is a historical document of uncommon passion and courage, the dramatic story of a brilliant, beautiful woman whose life was, up to her tragic assassination in 2007, inescapably tied to her nation's turbulent history.