I remember people walking barefoot and bare-backed because of the poverty. Little things or big things, you look back and you say, “I wish I had done that a different way.” Much more critical to my own life was my failure to understand the world is moving towards transparency. In retrospect, one is older and wiser. In 1996, President Leghari of Pakistan dismissed Benazir Bhutto from office, alleging mismanagement, and dissolved the National Assembly. Islamabad: Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ex-president Asif Ali Zardari's daughter Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari is all set to get engaged at the end of this month. Gradually, she occupied the center stage in the politics of Pakistan through her sheer struggle against dictatorship and for restoration of democracy in the country. I heard the Prime Minister of Ireland say, “Even if you have an idea, let the other person think it’s their idea,” and he was so right. I mean, the ordinary things, in the heat of the summer where you can open the fridge and take — nothing. Benazir Bhutto’s Parents – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Begum Nusrat Ispahani. He was clinging to the car, and I always felt, after that, that perhaps people need to have their dignity and to die in peace rather than to be taken to strange clinics. So when we had 50,000 women with a vested stake in it, we had ambassadors everywhere to counter people in villages who were opposed to population control. What are you looking forward to? Were you aware of these disparities? Alexander, the Great, cutting the Gordian knot. Her efforts and struggle to champion democracy remain a lasting legacy that is deeply respected among her rivals. Whereas for my father, he broke free of those constraints, and he insisted that I have an education. There’s another thing I remember. I think back to the time when my father was in prison. So you took all of this back to Pakistan with you? My father put a great emphasis on education, and I found that he would always be so pleased when I did well. I had nothing. Directed by Duane Baughman, Johnny O'Hara. Anti-Zia demonstrations resumed and Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in April 1986. Following the ceremony, Bakhtawar shared a picture of herself and her fiance Mahmood Choudhry, along with a portrait of her late mother Benazir Bhutto in the background. They see politicians all the time. Benazir Bhutto: Very much so. The PML-N leader said that Benazir Bhutto had to lay down her life during her struggle. Her mother, Nusrat Bhutto, was elected to parliament in the 1980s and was a leader of the democratic opposition. Your very political ideals were controversial, weren’t they? And he said, “Take my cow because I don’t have any money,” and that was the cow that would give them milk to feed the children. Among them was another Oxford chum who spontaneously yanked me into the lorry soon after her plane landed. Her death was a devastating loss to her country, but the cause of democracy she championed is carried on by her family and followers. The gap between the rich and the poor was greater, too. When I look back on my life, I think of the different stages when we were so raw and naive, before we realized how things work. Her career has been celebrated as a triumph for women in the Muslim world and for the global fight against Islamic extremism. Mrs. Bandaranaike in Sri Lanka had been the first woman prime minister. Bakhtawar was merely 16 when her mother Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during a political rally in 2007. Her husband is not a Bhutto, and has no legitimacy, while her children are too young. And I remember very much Mother Eugene used to teach us literature and poetry, and to reach for the moon, and the lodestar, and inspiring us. I went there at a time of great social ferment, at a time when the Vietnam war was being fought. Kate Millet had just written her book and I remember all the discussions we’d have about which of us women would succeed. “When I first got elected, they said: A woman has usurped a man’s place! Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990 & 1993-1996). She should be assassinated! Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928 -1979), the ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan, from 1973-1977, and the fourth President of Pakistan, from 1971-1973, and father of Benazir Bhutto. Building schools was right. I learned in two decades that you can shape the direction of your society by being in power or even being outside power. I’m not a fundamentalist but I am very devout, and I believe that God places a burden on one’s shoulders that he feels that you can bear. Only two years into her first term, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed Bhutto from office. Benazir Bhutto: If my children go into politics? Benazir Bhutto became prime minister of Pakistan in 1988. Although Benazir Bhutto did not live to see these developments, the party she led and the causes she championed still play a major role in the political life of contemporary Pakistan. His daughter — and Schofield — fought for his life. Benazir’s mausoleum, where she was buried next to her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was seen teeming with PPP supporters. Asif Ali Zardari was released from prison in 2004 and rejoined his family in London. And don’t be afraid. Within months he was jailed over a murder case and sentenced to hang by General Zia-ul-Haq. Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, daughter of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and Former President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, has gotten engaged to Dubai-based businessman Mahmood Choudhry. A riveting documentary of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto, a polarizing figure in the Muslim world. But my mother got sick and actually she had lung cancer, but we didn’t know she was getting Alzheimer’s. She was putting out a literary magazine in California the last I heard. In 1984 she was allowed to travel back to the United Kingdom, where she immediately took over as head of the PPP, replacing her mother, and began agitating for democratic reform. Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi, Pakistan to a prominent political family. Do you ever stop and think back on how you might have handled things differently in your career, in your life? Sometimes I think, “Why would someone go on doing it?” When I get so much love at the mass level, I feel that I must go on. Within months he was jailed over a murder case and sentenced to hang by General Zia-ul-Haq. But my own agenda was very much poverty alleviation and population planning, for instance. In 1977, Benazir Bhutto’s last year at Oxford, the Prime Minister was removed from office when the military took over the government in a coup d’etat. Benazir Bhutto was the eldest daughter of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto. Benazir Bhutto’s father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was removed from office following a military coup in 1977 led by the then chief of army General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who imposed martial law but promised to hold elections within three months. You’ve had to deal with family tragedy, you’ve been in and out of prison, in and out of detention. The Bhutto's were aristocratic, wealthy landlords from Sindh, part of the waderos or landed gentry. The photo that shows Bakhtawar dressed ina pink-coloured outfit was paired with an embroidered shawl. Fatima Bhutto grow up in Karachi and Syria and got Bachelors degree from Barnard College and master degree from University of London. Now things are much leaner and meaner. I used to go to a convent school, the Convent of Jesus and Mary. Benazir Bhutto: Ethnic and religious violence. Nobody could do it, but he sliced it. Murtaza Bhutto is the brother of Benazir Bhutto ex-prime minister of Pakistan and the son of great Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. I tell them, “Wait a minute. What do you see as the biggest challenges ahead? Part of it is the information technology because it brings what is happening in the rest of the world to ordinary women in parts of the Muslin world and they say, “Why not us?”. He was a fisherman and he used to fish from the sea nearby and he used to sell us the fish. That’s the world I’d like to see. They said, “The prime minister is a woman, why can’t we work?”  I remember being told a story about a lady who wanted to be a pilot, and went for an interview, and the chairman, who happened to be from the armed forces, laughed and said, “Come back to me when we have a woman prime minister.”   Well she did, and she got the job, and now there are more woman pilots too. I think back to my first tenure as prime minister, and I didn’t get on with the president because he wanted to have a kind of presidential system and I believed in the parliamentary system. So it was quite shocking to me, and I was sensitive to it because my father was sensitive to it. There were hard liners, they rejected compromise. At the same time, she has been accused of corruption and bad governance. The Social Justice iBook opens up the compelling, inspiring and selfless world of social justice, giving readers a better understanding of how empowering others, promoting equality and exposing injustice can change the very fabric of our society. Benazir Bhutto left a deeply polarizing legacy. Certainly there are women activists, but not too many. Benazir Bhutto: I didn’t have any doubts. She made hunger, housing and healthcare her top priorities, and looked forward to continuing to modernize Pakistan. You came to America to go to college. I remember the iodized salt; the clerics said, “You shouldn’t eat iodized salt because it has really got population control in it, and you won’t be able to have any children.”  So we did take on an agenda that frightened the people who believed in the status quo, and who actually believed in a tribal patriarchal society, because to a great extent there is still an undercurrent of a patriarchal society in Pakistan. 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