Word: bhutto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THIS IS MY VICTORY. IT IS A CLEAR and decisive victory." That was Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto's line last week, and, to an extent, the election results bore her out. After a bitter name-calling campaign, Bhutto and her P.P.P. gained 87 seats in the 217-seat National Assembly -- a plurality far short of a majority -- while her rival, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League, took...
Harvard has traditionally invited heads ofstate to speak at Commencement. In recent years,speakers have included German Prime MinisterHelmut Kohl and Pakistani leader Benazir P. Bhutto...
After completing her graduate studies at Oxford, Bhutto spent the next five years in and out of prisons. Even while under house arrest, she formed the Pakistan People's Party and came to power in 1988, after Zia died in a plane crash...
...first acts as prime minister, Bhutto freed political prisoners and removed constraints on the press...
During her speech, Bhutto called for the establishment of an alliance of democratic nations to see that human rights are protected and free elections are held worldwide...