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Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto

Political activist with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

1977-84 Repeatedly imprisoned and kept under house arrest by the Pakistani government; political exile in London, England.

1988 She became Prime Minister

1990 Her government was illegally dismissed in August.
1993 She again came to power after her party won a majority in elections held in October...

1984 Returned to Pakistan in April.

1986 Pakistan Peoples Party, Karachi, Pakistan co-chair.

1988 After elections held November, invited to form .........

Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Tribute to Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto
Biography
Speeches
Articles/Interviews
Kashmir Policy
Letters
Audios/Videos

Poems

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Remembering Benazir Bhutto
By Farah Naz Ispahani Express Tribune - December 27, 2010

Benazir Bhutto — an icon of struggle for the peopleBy Farzana Raja - The News December 27, 2010

Benazir lived and died for Pakistan
By Bashir Riaz - December 27, 2010

Bibi and the Thorns of Life
By Ilyas Mohsin - December 27, 2008

Benazir Bhutto — an icon of struggle for the people

BENAZIR: A Woman of Peace & Reconciliation!!
By Fauz Al-Najdi - December 27, 2008

Philippines senate honors Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto
Feb 29, 2008

US Senate Resolution: Demands an Independent International Investigation into SMBB's Assassination

The Making of a Martyr
By Naveed Mughal - February 7, 2008

'Bibi it is an honour to have worked for you and with you. The Himalayas wept the death of your father. The world weeps for you.'
Aitzaz Ahsan - January 29, 2008

My Leader
by Fauzia Wahab - The Nation - January 20, 2008

A ruler of hearts

by Dr Javaid Laghari - The News - January 19, 2008

Speaker Pelosi calls for international probe
‘If I Am Assassinated’
Excerpts from some published news reports about Shaheed Benazir Bhutto's apprehensions and accusations about her possible killers since the terrorist attack on her Karachi rally on October 19, 2007

Mohtarma Bhutto’s assassination: Senator Asif Ali Zardari writes to the UN Secretary General

Beyond Benazir

The Pakistan Peoples Party is right to keep her family in charge
By Husain Haqqani - Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2008

Bhutto's Last Day, in Keeping With Her Driven Life
Before Assassins Struck Dec. 27, Pakistan's Ex-Premier Kept Up Frenetic Pace but Also Found Time for a Prayer By Griff Witte and Emily Wax
Washington Post Foreign Service - Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Bhutto's party open to deals, not 'dictatorship'
Washington Times - By Ashish Kumar Sen - January 16, 2008
Wag the dog
by Waqar Mehdi, The News - January 15, 2008
Pervez Musharraf - the Mercenary of CIA, MI6, Mossad and RAW - is Destroying Pakistan
Corrupt Tyrant Mush Must Resign Immediately - By MUHAMMAD NAWAZ SHARIF 6 January 2008
Asif Ali Zardari: My Benazir's hopes for democracy can live on... if Musharraf stands down
The Independent, London 6 January 2008
The Sunday Times
I begged my Bibi to avoid murder rally
Christina Lamb, Naudero, Pakistan - January 6, 2008

Pakistan's Tipping Point
By Bilawal Bhutto - January 6, 2008

The Duty My Wife Left Us
The Washington Post - By Asif Ali Zardari - January 5, 2008

Benazir Bhutto in her own words
BBC - 28 December 2007

Benazir Bhutto: A great and brave friend
By Victoria Schofield, Daily Telegraph, 27 December 2007

Chain of Federation by Azim Khan Keyani (Poem)
January 8, 2008

Tribute to Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto by Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali (Poem)
January 8, 2008

Cry The Beloved Country (Poem)
January 3, 2008

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Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto
1953 - 2007
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan

PERSONAL

Born June 21, 1953, in Karachi, Pakistan
Daughter of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (a political leader and former Prime Minister) and Nusrat Bhutto (former Member of Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan)
Married, December 18, 1987 to Asif Ali Zardari (in business, twice elected Member of National Assembly and Senate)
Ms Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister for the first time in 1988 at the age of 35, but was removed from office 20 months later under the order of then-president Ghulam Ishaq. In 1993 she was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 by then-president Leghari. She went into exile in Dubai in 1998.
She returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007. She was assassinated on 27 December 2007, after departing a PPP rally in Liaqat Bagh, Rawalpindi.
Children: Bilawal, Bakhtwar and Aseefa.

EDUCATION

Radcliffe College, Harvard University, B.A., 1973;
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, B.A., 1976;
Graduate study at Oxford in Foreign Service, 1976-77.

CAREER

Political activist with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan, 1977-84; repeatedly imprisoned and kept under house arrest by the Pakistani government; political exile in London, England, 1984-86; returned to Pakistan in April, 1986; Pakistan Peoples Party, Karachi, Pakistan co-chair, beginning in 1986; After elections held November 1988, invited to form the government, became Prime Minister in 1988 but her government was illegally dismissed in August 1990. She again came to power after her party won a majority in elections held in October 1993. Her government was once again dismissed illegally in November 1996.

NARRATIVE

Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the first woman ever to lead a modern Islamic nation, did not plan to be a politician. She became active in politics after her father, the late Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was ousted from office in a 1977 military coup and later executed. Having sworn to carry her father's political flame, Benazir Bhutto overcame government persecution and a lack of political experience, leading her Pakistan Peoples Party to victory in the November 1988 and October 1993 parliamentary elections. As Prime Minister, Bhutto has been praised for moving swiftly to restore civil liberties and political freedom, suspended under military rule. During her terms of office, she has faced enormous challenges in governing a poor, politically fractious, and ethnically diverse nation.

Bhutto discusses her personal life and political career in her autobiography "Daughter of Destiny", which was published in 1989 to favorable reviews. Born into a wealthy landholding family with a tradition of political activism in southeastern Sindh province, Bhutto enjoyed a privileged childhood and went on to study political science and philosophy at Radcliffe College and Oxford University. She excelled academically and planned to work with her father's government as a professional diplomat upon her return to Pakistan in June 1977.

Only two weeks later, however, military officers led by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq - capitalizing on public protests of disputed parliamentary elections - overthrew Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a bloodless coup. Benazir Bhutto spent the next eighteen months in and out of house arrest as she struggled to rally political support to force Zia to drop fallacious murder charges against her father. The military dictator ignored worldwide appeals for clemency and had Zulfikar Bhutto hanged in April of 1979.

Bhutto writes in her autobiography of her last meeting with her father just before his execution. She also vigorously defends her father's government. Zulfikar Bhutto's government had mass support and was a democratic regime that worked for down trodden and have-nots.

Bhutto's persecution began in earnest after the dismissal of her father's government in 1977 and his execution in 1979 as she intensified her denunciations of Zia and sought to organize a political movement against him. Repeatedly put under house arrest, she was finally imprisoned under solitary confinement in a desert cell in Sindh province during the summer of 1981. Bhutto described the hellish conditions in her wall less cage in "Daughter of Destiny":

"The summer heat turned my cell into an oven. My skin split and peeled, coming off my hands in sheets. Boils erupted on my face. My hair, which had always been thick, began to come out by the handful. Insects crept into the cell like invading armies. Grasshoppers, mosquitoes, stinging flies, bees and bugs came up through the cracks in the floor and through the open bars from the courtyard. Big black ants, cockroaches, seething clumps of little red ants and spiders. I tried pulling the sheet over my head at night to hide from their bites, pushing it back when it got too hot to breathe."

Weakened but still defiant, Bhutto was finally allowed to travel to England in 1984 to receive treatment for a serious ear infection, and she remained in exile there until after Zia lifted Martial Law in December of 1985. A huge crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands turned out on the streets to greet her - by then the leading symbol of the anti-Zia movement -- when she returned to Lahore in April of 1986. Formally elected chair in the following month, Bhutto lost no time in organizing mass protests and civil disobedience campaigns to pressure Zia to relinquish office and call national elections. Bhutto's stirring oratory, familiar name, and striking appearance helped give her a strong mass appeal, but she had to struggle to wrest real power from the PPP's old-guard leadership, members of which were wary of her gender, youth, and political wisdom.

"An arranged marriage was the price had to pay for the political path my life had taken," she writes in "Daughter of Destiny". "My high profile in Pakistan precluded the possibility of meeting a man in the normal course of events, getting to know him, and then getting married." But Bhutto had hopes that the relationship would deepen. "We were coming to marriage with no preconceptions," she observes. "Our love could only grow."

General Zia's death in a mysterious airplane crash in August of 1988 instantly thrust Bhutto to political center stage. In November, she led the PPP to victory in the first free Pakistani elections in eleven years. Sworn into office as Prime Minister the following month, Bhutto acted quickly to release Zia's political prisoners and guaranteed basic civil and political freedom. A strong and contentious rightist parliamentary opposition of former Zia allies and Islamic fundamentalists accused the new Prime Minister of packing the civil service with PPP supporters.

Relations with Pakistan's longtime enemy India showed early signs of improving when Bhutto met with former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, but Muslim unrest in the disputed territory of Kashmir threatened to renew tensions in early 1990. Despite these problems, political observers credited Bhutto with keeping the country's chronic ethnic and regionalist tensions in check and developing a working relationship with the coup-prone military during her first year in office.

Notwithstanding, she decided to face the system and accepted the challenge to guide people in the transition from military dictatorship to the management of democracy. Her government gave a high priority to social sectors like health, education, clean drinking water, sanitation and energy. The budgetary allocations in these sectors were increased so that fruits of democracy and freedom could reach the common man. Similarly, in the domain of foreign policy, her government pursued an aggressive and dynamic policy.

Addressing a historic US Joint Session of Congress during her state visit to the United States in 1989, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto called for the establishment of an Association of New Democratic Nations.

On August 6, 1990 after having been in office less than half of her tenure, President Ghulam Ishaque Khan dismissed her government unilaterally and called for fresh elections.

While ensuring that her Party was not returned to power, the President and the Caretaker Prime Minister filed a series of references against Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. Her husband, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari was arrested and imprisoned for over two years on a number of trumped up charges.

In July 1993, the President of Pakistan dismissed the Government of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif on corruption charges and called for fresh elections. The Pakistan Peoples Party went to the people in October, 1993 with a new "Agenda for Change". The programme envisaged government at the door-step of the people and priority to the social sectors. Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was again elected Prime Minister with a broad mandate after achieving strong popular support in all the four provinces of Pakistan.

She has been mentioned as "The world's most popular politician" in the New Guinness Book of Record 1996.

The "Times" and the "Australian Magazine" (May 4, 1996) have drawn up a list of 100 most powerful women and have included Benazir Bhutto as one of them.

PUBLICATIONS

Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto is the author of two books "Foreign Policy in Perspective" (1978) and her autobiography, "Daughter of the East" (1989). Several collections of her speeches and works have been compiled which include "The Way Out", Pakistan Foreign Policy, Challenges and Responses in the Post-Cold War era in "After the Cold War" by Keith Philip Lepor and Male Domination of Women offends her Islamic religion in "Lend Me Your ears: Great Speeches in History" by William Saffire. The most recent being "The Way Out" (1980). She has also contributed to many periodicals and to the books, "Predictions for the Next Millennium" by Kristof and Nickerson and "Book of Hopes and Dreams" published by Bookmaster Inc.

AWARDS AND HONORARY DEGREES

Bruno Kreisky Award of Merit in human Rights, 1988.
Honorary Phi Beta Kappa Award (1989), presented by Radcliffe College, Harvard University.
Highest Moroccan Award "Grand Cordon de Wissam Alaoui"
Highest French Award "Grand-croix de la Legion Honneur" (1989)
The Noel Foundation Award, 1990 (UNIFEM).
Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - 1990
The Gakushuin Honorary Award, Tokyo (1996)
Award by the Turkish Independent Industries and Businessmen Association (MUSAID) on account of providing assistance to the people of Bosnia.
Golden medal Dragon of Bosnia awarded by President of Bosnia (1996)
Key to the city of Los Angeles, presented by the Mayor of Los Angeles (1995)
Presidential Medal, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Science (1995)
Medal by University of California at Los Angeles (1995)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, L.L.D Harvard University (1989)
Honorary Doctorate of Law (Honoris Causa), University of Sindh (1994)
Honorary Doctorate from Mendanao State University, Philippines (1995)
Honorary Doctorate of Law (Honoris Causa), Peshawar University (1995)
Honorary Doctorate of Economics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo (1996)
Honorary Fellowship by Lady Margaret Hall, University Oxford, (1989)
Honorary Fellowship by St. Catherine College, University of Oxford, (1989)
Honorary Professor of the Kyrghyz State National University (1995) Kyrghyzstan.
Honorary Professor of Yassavi Kazakh Turkish University, Kazakh-Turkish International Language University, Kazakhstan, 1995.
Honorable Member of OHYUKAI, Alumni Association of Gakushuin, conferred by OHYUKAI Tokyo (1996).
Awarded the 2000 Millennium Medal of Honor by American Biographical Institute, Inc. in November 1998.
Awarded American Academy Award of Achievement in London, October 28, 2000
Awarded “World Tolerance Award 2005” by Women World Awards in Leipzig, November 29, 2005
Awarded 'International Woman of the Year 2006' by the prominent European Publishing House based in Dubai as part of "Emirates Woman Awards 2006'.
Nominated Chair of "Muslim Women for Human Rights and Democracy"
Oslo, Norway, May 6-7, 2007
Awarded the prestigious Tipperary International Peace Award for April 25, 2008 (posthumously)
Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was posthumously awarded the Service to Humanity Award by the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 1-5 Dec 2010.

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Joint Session of US Congress (1989)
World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland (1994)
French National Assembly (1994)
Parliament, Republic of Ireland, (1994)
UN Conference on Population Planning, Cairo (1994)
UN Commission for Human Rights, Geneva (1994)
Fortune Global Forum, Singapore (1995)
Princeton University, USA (1995)
School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1995)
Women Conference, Beijing (1995)

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Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto's Speeches

Year 2008

Crans Montana Prix de la FoundationAddress by Miss Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari: 28^th June 2008

Year 2007

Last speech of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi
December 27, 2007
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto's Address to Diplomats at PPP Foreign Liaison Committee ReceptionSenate Hall - Islamabad - 10 November 2007
Democratization in Pakistan
The Middle East Institute
Washington, DC - September 25, 2007
Battle for Democracy Not Easy
Dubai - May 03, 2007
Speech on Islam
Kiev, Ukraine, April 26, 2007
Ideas Live On
Pakistan Community Function - Denmark - April 22, 2007
Can Indo Pak Relations be Reinvented
India Today Conclave - New Delhi - March 24, 2007
Democracy in Muslim World and Pakistan essential to avert dangers
Address at John Hopkins University - USA - February 6, 2007

Year 2006

Women Leading Change
US Islamic World Forum - Feb 18-20, 2006 - Doha, Qatar
Avert Clash of Civilizations through Justice and Human Rights
Desert Forum - Indian Wells - California USA - 24 January 2005
Debunks Regime's Claims of Moderation: Address to Pakistanis in New York
New York - January 15, 2006
Year 2005
Abu Dhabi World Leaders Summit
Abu Dhabi, UAE - November 15, 2005
At Rashid Centre Humanitarian Awards Ceremony
Dubai - June 6, 2005
Women Emancipation
International Women Business Conference - Damascus – Syria, 20 May 2005
Politics of intolerance culminates in extremism: Ms Benazir Bhutto
Address on the Annual Healthcare Leadership Forum organized by Siemens Medical Solution Group in Arizona State USA - May 4, 2005
Denial of political rights undermined country's stability
Address at the Harvard University in the United States - May 1, 2005
Ms Bhutto says dictatorship has disempowered people
Lecturer at the Simmons College in Massachusetts - US - April 30, 2005
Pakistan's political, financial and social sectors dominated by military under dictatorship
Florida (USA) - March 08, 2005

Year 2004

Fanatics seeking to bring about Clash of Civilization: Ms Bhutto says Path to Leadership Strewn with Thorns
Indiana University – USA - November 06, 2004
Autocratic Regimes Spending Heavily on Militaries Cannot Fight Poverty
Stressa near Milan (Italy) - October 22, 2004
Musharraf exploiting war on Terror - Global Institute for Leadership
California - 19 October 2004
Ms Bhutto says she could deal with terrorism without uniform
Houston - 17 October 2004
Women's Achievements at Dubai Women's College - Dubai
Dubai - September 20, 2004
International Peace and Role of Religion - London
London - June 25, 2004
Kashmir Issue Conference organized by International Kashmir Alliance
London - May 29, 2004
Lady Margaret Hall by Ms Benazir Bhutto
Oxford - May 27, 2004
Dubai Women's College International Women’s Day - Dubai - March 8, 2004
Woodrow Wilson Centre
Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC - February 09, 2004

Year 2003

Peace Conference
Hindustan Times Seminar - New Delhi - December 13, 2003
Meeting of Professional Women
San Jose, USA - 18 November 2003
Message To Youth
London - 23 August 2003
Jashan-e-Azadi Function - Savirya Foundation
London - 16 August 2003
Civil Society and Women’s Participation in the Political Process
Rome, Italy - July 18, 2003
Democracy And Internationalism: Post Iraq
The World Political Forum - Turin, Italy - May 19, 2003
Martyr Shehu Yar' Adua Commemoration Day – Nigeria
March 8, 2003

Year 2002

Victims of Terrorism US Tour
December 16, 2002
Terrorism: The Threat to Asia
Political Parties Conference Bangkok - November 22- 24, 2002
Three Victims of Terrorism
October 4, 2002
Saving South Asia From War and Terrorism
Address at the first meeting of Advisory Group of the Eminent Persons Group - London - 16 August 2002
Address to Council of the Socialist International
Casablanca 31 May – 1 June 2002

Year 2001

Social Development and Women’s EmpowermentAddress to ‘Council of Indian Industry’ - New Delhi - November 26, 2001
Bhutto Compares Fight for Pakistani Democracy to Fight Against Apartheid in South Africa
Johannesburg - August 7, 2001
Role of Islam as Guarantor of Women Rights
Seoul, May 2, 2001

Year 2000

Address at the Commonwealth Ethnic Bar Association
October 30, 2000
Ms Benazir Bhutto’s address at ‘Conference of Asian Political Parties’ Manila
September 17, 2000
Agnes Scott Women's College Decatur, Georgia
March 14, 2000
Islam Compatible with the West? - at Oxford
February 20, 2000
The Military Crisis in South Asia, Terrorism and the Political Situation February 5, 2000

Year 1999

Pakistan’s Political Crisis and Human Rights Record - A lecture organized by US Committee for HR - New York
May 30, 1999
Excerpts of address Woodrow Wilson Centre-Washington May 25, 1999
Global Free Trade and South Asia - London Breakfast Club
April 16, 1999
Pakistan and Free Market Objectives A Course of Action for the 21st Century London - April 15, 1999
On 20th Martyrdom Anniversary of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Karachi - 8 March 1999
Profiles in Courage - SDPI Seminar at Islamabad March 05, 1999
First Indo-Pak Parliamentarians Conference February 13, 1999
Pakistan: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
January 22, 1999
The Courage to Lead - The Power of Women Conference Toronto, Canada April 8, 1999

Year 1998

'Accountability or Revenge' Seminar by Council of Pakistan Affairs Karachi November 26, 1998
Economic Disaster Under PML(N) - Addressed to the Larkana High Court Bar Association November 20, 1998
Meet the Press Programme KARACHI PRESS CLUB
November 06, 1998
Address to the High Court Bar Association Sukkur
November 5, 1998
At the Royal institute of International Affairs, London in the Seminar: 'Cold war: Heroes, Villains & Spies'
September 10, 1998
An Agenda for National Survival
August 28, 1998
Lahore High Court Bar Association
June 30, 1998
Budget Speech
June 15, 1998
Explosions versus Emergency on Proclamation of Emergency
8 June, 1998
Unique Lives and Experiences Lecture Series delivered at Cambridge - USA
May 02, 1998
Unique Lives and Experiences Lecture Series delivered at Boston - USA
May 01, 1998
Unique Lives and Experiences Lecture Series
Montreal - CANADA, 30 April 1998
Unique Lives and Experiences Lecture Series
Minneapolis - USA - 29 April 1998

Year 1997

Clash of Civilizations: The Centre for World Dialogue - CYPRUS
30 October 1997
International Leadership Day - Goteborg, Sweden
25 November 1997
Cover-up or Accountability Speech at Seminar - Lahore
May 30, 1997
Current Issues: Fall Tour of the United States - Dowmel Foundation Salem State College Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch
November 11, 1997
Message from Benazir Bhutto for International Women’s Leadership Forum
San Francisco California, September 25, 1997
National Security - All Pakistan Representatives Meeting of the - PPP
Lahore, June 29, 1997
Federal Council Seminar - 'A Sweet and Sour Budget'
June 20, 1997
On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary in Parliament of Anura Bandaranaike
Sri Lanka - July 25, 1997
Post Cold War World - Colombo, Sri Lanka
25th July 1997
Regional Grouping of Neurosurgical Societies - Regional Meeting of SAARC Neurosurgeons - Karachi
20 December 1997
Speech delivered at Meet The Press Programme - Karachi Press Club
December 21, 1997

Year 1995

Islam Forbids Injustice Against People, Nations and Women
Beijing: 4 September 1995

Year 1989

New Phase in Relations
Speech at the banquet in honour of the Prime Minister of India - July 16, 1989
Democratic Nations Must Unite Commencement Address of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto to the Harvard University - June 8, 1989

Address at US House of Representatives
June 07, 1989

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Kashmir Woes

Kashmir as we all understand is a very sensitive subject. Our feelings are with the people of Kashmir and we salute their struggle and offer our full support to their search for freedom.

We would welcome your suggestions on this topic. You can email us on PPP Advisory and please visit this page as often as you can. Thank you.

International Conference:
India & Pakistan - Designing a New Future Speech by Senator Asif Ali Zardari - London : June 26, 2008
Kashmir Issue Conference organized by International Kashmir Alliance
London - May 29, 2004
Can Indo Pak Relations be Reinvented
India Today Conclave - New Delhi - March 24, 2007
Peace Conference
Hindustan Times Seminar - New Delhi - December 13, 2003
Social Development and Women’s Empowerment
Address to ‘Council of Indian Industry’ - New Delhi - November 26, 2001
First Indo-Pak Parliamentarians Conference February 13, 1999
How APHC was Affiliated with the OIC
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani's letter to Editor - Daily Excelsior, Jammu
Bhutto Proposes Camp David for Kashmir
18 November, 1998
South Asian nuclear parity opens door for resolving Kashmir June 7, 1998
Benazir solicits N. Ireland like solution to Kashmir
Daughters of the Kashmir struggle
US Report on Kashmir
Kashmir Curry Supper Comes Back
Open Letter to Secretary Albright Re Kashmir
13 November 1997

Open Letter to Clinton Re-Kashmir by Ms Bhutto
September 5, 1997

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L e t t e r s

Ms Bhutto asks OIC to take up Iraqi prisoners issue
May 10, 2004
Mohtarma Bhutto asks PPPP legislators to expose exploitation of NAB as political instrument Ms Bhutto's Letter to Own Parliamentarians
Open Letter by Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto
Open Letter to the People of Pakistan - August 23, 2002
Open Letter to Secretary Albright Re Kashmir(Regarding Kashmir)
Open Letter to Clinton Re-Kashmir by Ms Bhutto(Regarding Kashmir)
Text of Ms Bhutto's Letter to President CLINTON(Regarding Senator Asif Ali Zardari)
Ms Bhutto's Letter to Governor Sindh(Regarding Senator Asif Ali Zardari)
PPP rejects the low level Judicial Commission(Regarding Senator Asif Ali Zardari)

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Audio And Video Speeches of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto

Play
UN to investigate Bhutto killing
AP via Yahoo! News - Jul 11 12:33 AM

A Video Nooha (requiem), “Main Beti Hoon Zulfiqar Ki”, tribute to Shaheed-e-Jamhoriyat Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was released, in four different languages (Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi and Saraiki), by Pakistan Peoples Party. These videos can be watched at following YouTube links:
Main Beti Hoon Zulfiqar Ki! (Urdu Version)

Main Beti Hoon Zulfiqar Ki! (Sindhi Version)

Main Beti Hoon Zulfiqar Ki! (Punjabi Version)

Main Beti Hoon Zulfiqar Ki! (Saraiki Version)
Few words from Ms Bhutto's Last Speech on Dec 27, 2007
Bhutto plans to end exile
Late Edition W/Wolf Blitzer
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto's Interview to CNN (Video Format)
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto's Birthday MessageJune 21, 2005
Ms Bhutto's address to Youth at Karachi
10 October 2004
Ms Bhutto's address to World Sindhi Institute
01 October 2004
Ms Bhutto's Interview to BBC/Urdu - Swiss Judgment: BBC
15 August 2003
Ms Bhutto's Azadi Message on 14 August (in audio)
14 August 2003
Ms Bhutto's Speech at Trafalgar Square
London - August 25, 2002
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto audio interview with BBC Urdu Service
Ms Bhutto's Audio Message on Referendum
(in Urdu)
Ms Bhutto's Audio Message on Referendum(in Sindhi)
Benazir Bhutto live interview on Sky News on February 9, 2001
Ms Benazir Bhutto has given the message for People of Pakistan after the Supreme Court set aside the corruption convictions against her and Sen. Zardari

Audio And Video Speeches of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

SZAB walkout from Security Council, 1971

SZAB on Kashmir, 1965

Jaras-e-Gul Ki Sada'a-1

Jaras-e-Gul Ki Sada'a-2

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto speaking to youth

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P O E M S

Chain of Federation
by Azim Khan Keyani - January 8, 2008
Tribute to Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto by Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali January 8, 2008
Chain of Federation
By Azim Khan Keyani - January 8, 2008
Cry The Beloved Country
Gulzar Bano - Lahore January 3, 2007
Alamdaar-e-Aman
By Kazi Ayaz Mahessar - Oct 30, 2007
Bhutto - A Legend
Iqbal Javaid - July 6, 2007
Dukhtar-e-Mushraq Kay Naam
by Nasir Nizami, Holland - June 21, 2007
Poem – Judicial Crisis
By Muhammad Khalid Bhatti (Bhuttoist and Zinda Dil-e-Lahore)
The Story of Benazir
from Marvi of Malir and Shah Latif - by Benazir Bhutto - June 21, 2003
In Memoriam
"My status in written in the stars, my symbol is in the hearts of our people" - Z. A. Bhutto
Ms Bhutto - Since Your Exile
In reply to Benazir Bhutto’s poem written in her exile on her 50^th Birthday by Kazi Ayaz Mahessar, 24-6-2003
On her (Ms Bhutto) Arriving at 50
BENAZIR 1986 - by Shamsul Alam Belal, Dhaka/Bangladesh
A Poem for the Exiles
Mrs. Shaista Habib, Lahore, Pakistan

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P h o t o g r a p h s

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Ms Benazir Bhutto swears in as the First Woman Prime Minister in 1988

Family Photograph

Indira-Z.A.Zulfikar

Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and PM Indira Gandhi lead their
country's' delegations during
Shimla talk on June 21, 1972

Indira-Bhuttos

Ms Bhutto and Foreign Secretary UK Mr. Jack Straw - 14-03-2005

Mian Shahbaz Sharif Mr Jehangir Badr, Mr. Hassan Nawaz, Syed Ghous Ali Shah and Wajid Shamsul Hassan met with Ms Benazir Bhutto in London on March 13, 2005.

PM Indira Gandhi receives
Pakistan President Zulfikar
Ali Bhutto on his arrival at
Shimla on June 28, 1972.

Begum Bhutto with Jehan
Sadaat, Cairo (1972)

Ms Bhutto with First Lady of Turkey, Syria and Egypt at Womens Conference Damascus MAY 21, 2005

Ms Bhutto in Masjad-e-Nabvi

Benazir Bhutto & Begum Nusrat Bhutto - 1987

Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Birthday - 2005

Murtaza Bhutto

Ms Bakhtwar and Aseefa Zardari with relief good for earthquake affecters - 1-11-2005.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Indra Gandhi - 1972

Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto with NDI 's Mr. Ivan Doherty, Ms Mary Cummins, Ms Sheila Fruman, Safdar Abbasi Parvez Ashraf and Sherry Rehman

Bhuttos-Indira

Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto meets with King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz

Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Meets Labour Leader Tony Blair in London

Mian Shahbaz Sharif met with
Ms Benazir Bhutto in London
on March 13, 2005. Also in the picture are Mr Jehangir Badr, Mr. Hassan Nawaz, Syed Ghous Ali Shah and Wajid Shamsul Hassan

Begum Nusrat Bhutto

Ms Bhutto and Foreign Secretary UK Mr. Jack Straw - 14-03-2005

Ms Benazir Bhutto tying Imam e
Zamin on her husband Asif Ali Zardari prior to his departure for Lahore - 16-4-2005

Ms Benazir Bhutto, Naveed Qamar MNA and Russian Parliamentary Delegation which invited her to Moscow. 20-4-05

Ms Bhutto with First Lady of Turkey, Syria and Egypt at Womens Conference Damascus MAY 21, 2005

Tehmina Daultana MNA, Raja Zafarul Haq, (PML-N) and Hafiz Hussain Ahmed MNA (MMA) visited Senator Asif Ali Zardari in Hospital in Dubai on 10-6-2005 to inquire about his health

Ms Benazir Bhutto met with Dr. Sahzia Khalid Pakistani rape victim to show solidarity and sympathy with her. London 13-8-2005

Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Birthday - 2005

Ms Bhutto, Senator Asif Zardari & Asma Jehangir June 18, 2005

Ms Bakhtwar and Aseefa Zardari with relief good for earthquake affecters - 1-11-2005.

Shah Nawaz Bhutto

Awarded 'International Woman of the Year 2006' by the prominent European Publishing House based in Dubai as part of "Emirates Woman Awards 2006'

Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto with NDI 's Mr. Ivan Doherty, Ms Mary Cummins, Ms Sheila Fruman, Safdar Abbasi Parvez Ashraf and Sherry Rehman

The US First Lady Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea visit Pakistan

Interaction between the two representatives – President Bill Clinton and PM Benazir Bhutto in the Oval Office at White House

Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto inspects the Pakistani post in Siachen Glacier with other army office

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