<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains Urdu text . Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined letters running left to right or other symbols instead of Urdu script . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains Urdu text . Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined letters running left to right or other symbols instead of Urdu script . </Td> </Tr> <P> Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀُٽو ‎; 21 June 1953--27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who 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 . Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the centre - left Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination . </P> <P> Bhutto was born in Karachi to a politically important, aristocratic family; her father, the PPP's founder and leader Zulfikar, was elected Prime Minister on a socialist platform in 1973 . Bhutto studied at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, where she was President of the Oxford Union . She returned to Pakistan, where her father was ousted in a 1977 military coup and executed . Bhutto and her mother Nusrat took control of the PPP and led the country's Movement for the Restoration of Democracy; Bhutto was repeatedly imprisoned by Muhammad Zia - ul - Haq's military government and then exiled to Britain in 1984 . She returned in 1986 and transformed the PPP's platform from a socialist to a liberal one, before leading it to victory in the 1988 election . As Prime Minister, her attempts at reform were stifled by conservative and Islamist forces, including President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and the powerful military . Her administration was accused of corruption and nepotism, and dismissed by Khan in 1990 . Intelligence services rigged the 1990 election to ensure a victory for the conservative Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI), after which Bhutto served as the Leader of the Opposition . </P>

First and only woman prime minister of pakistan