Benazir Bhutto was born in 1953 in Karachi, Pakistan to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Begum Nusrat Ispahani, the eldest of the four siblings. As a young girl, she was exposed to political ideas and policies by her father, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, and would one day follow in his footsteps. She completed her early education in Pakistan, and attended Radcliffe College, and graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1973 with a Bachelor’s degree in comparative government
“When I first got elected, they said: ‘A woman has usurped a man’s place! She should be killed! She should be assassinated! She has committed heresy!’”
At age 35, Benazir Bhutto was one of the youngest chiefs of state in the world. More than that, she was the first woman ever to serve as prime minister of an Islamic country, but the road that brought her to power would also bring exile, imprisonment and devastating personal tragedy.