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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Arieb Azhar, Asif Ali Zardari, Atta ur Rahman, Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chaudhary Muhammad Ali, Dail Jones, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Hameed Haroon, Hussain Haroon, Kamila Shamsie, Kumail Nanjiani, Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi, Murtaza Bhutto, Nadeem F. Paracha, Nadia Zaffar, Nafisa Shah, Nazia Hassan, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Sadeq Sayeed, Shahryar Rashed, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Tapu Javeri, Waheed Murad. Excerpt: Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: Urdu:, pronounced; 21 June 1953 - 27 December 2007) was a politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from November 1988 until October 1990, and 1993 until her final dismissal on November 1996. She was the eldest daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister of Pakistan and the founder of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which she led. In 1982, at age 29, Benazir Bhutto became the chairwoman of PPP - a centre-left, democratic socialist political party, making her the first woman in Pakistan to head a major political party. In 1988, she became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state and was also Pakistan's first (and thus far, only) female prime minister. Noted for her charismatic authority and political astuteness, Benazir Bhutto drove initiatives for Pakistan's economy and national security, and she implemented social capitalist policies for industrial development and growth. In addition, her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector), flexible labour markets, the denationalisation of state-owned corporations, and the withdrawal of subsidies to others. Benazir Bhutto's popularity waned amid recession, corruption, and high unemployment which later led to the dismissal of her government by conservative President Ghulam Ishaq...