Benazir Bhutto Biography and Timeline — Page 2

Constitutional Dismissal

Presidential powers under the Eighth Amendment end Bhutto's second government.

Role range: 1993-1996 – 1993-1996

Dismissal

Benazir Bhutto leaves office after President Leghari dismisses her cabinet.

Role range: 1993-1996 – 1993-1996

Corruption Proceedings

Swiss authorities provide Pakistan with documents relating to corruption allegations against Bhutto and her husband.

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

Bhutto goes into self-imposed exile in Dubai

Election

The Bhutto-led PPP secures the highest number of votes (28.42%) and eighty seats (23.16%) in the national assembly in the October 2002 general elections. Candidates of PPP form a faction of their own, calling it PPP-Patriots, led by Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, former leader of Bhutto-led PPP who later form a coalition Government with Musharrafs party, PML-Q

National Assembly

The Bhutto-led PPP secures the highest number of votes (28.42%) and eighty seats (23.16%) in the national assembly in the October 2002 general elections

Constitution of Pakistan

Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf amends Pakistans constitution to ban Prime Minister's from serving more than two terms, this disqualifies Bhutto from ever holding the office again

Minhaj ul Quran International

Bhutto becomes a member of Minhaj ul Quran International (An international Muslim educational and welfare organisation)

Minhaj ul Quran International

Bhutto becomes a member of Minhaj ul Quran International (An international Muslim educational and welfare organisation)

Scandal

Swiss magistrates find Bhutto and her husband guilty of money laundering, they are given six-month suspended jail terms, fined $50,000 each and were ordered to pay $11 million to the Pakistani Government

Trial

Swiss magistrates find Bhutto and her husband guilty of money laundering, they are given six-month suspended jail terms, fined $50,000 each and were ordered to pay $11 million to the Pakistani Government

Scandal

Interpol issues a request for the arrest of Bhutto and her husband on corruption charges, at the request of Pakistan

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

Bhutto vows to return to Pakistan "very soon", regardless of whether or not she reached a power-sharing deal with Musharraf before then

Constitution of Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto accuses Pervez Musharrafs allies of pushing Pakistan into crisis by their refusal to permit democratic reforms and power-sharing

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

Bhutto accuses Musharrafs allies of pushing Pakistan into crisis by their refusal to permit democratic reforms and power-sharing

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

Musharraf signs the National Reconciliation Ordinance, giving amnesty to Bhutto and other political leaders-except exiled former premier Nawaz Sharif-in all court cases against them, including all corruption charges

Election

After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returns to Karachi to prepare for the 2008 national elections

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returns to Karachi to prepare for the 2008 national elections

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

Bhutto later claimed that she had warned the Pakistani Government that suicide bomb squads would target her upon her return to Pakistan and that the Government had failed to act.

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

En route to a rally in Karachi two explosions occur shortly after Bhutto had landed and left Jinnah International Airport, she was not injured but the explosions, later found to be a suicide-bomb attack, killed 136 people.

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

The dead include at least 50 of the security guards from her PPP who had formed a human chain around her truck to keep potential bombers away, as well as 6 police officers.

Suicide

En route to a rally in Karachi two explosions occur shortly after Bhutto had landed and left Jinnah International Airport, she was not injured but the explosions, later found to be a suicide-bomb attack, killed 136 people. Bhutto later claimed that she had warned the Pakistani Government that suicide bomb squads would target her upon her return to Pakistan and that the Government had failed to act

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed states that officials agreed to grant Benazir Bhutto amnesty versus pending corruption charges

Scandal

Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed states that officials agreed to grant Benazir Bhutto amnesty versus pending corruption charges

Arrest of Benazir Bhutto

Bhutto is placed under house arrest just a few hours before she was due to lead and address a rally against the state of emergency

State of Emergency

Bhutto is placed under house arrest just a few hours before she was due to lead and address a rally against the state of emergency

Election

Bhutto meets Nawaz Sharif to publicize their demand that Musharraf fulfill his promise to lift the state of emergency before Januarys Parliamentary elections, threatening to boycott the vote if he failed to comply

State of Emergency

Bhutto meets Nawaz Sharif to publicize their demand that Musharraf fulfill his promise to lift the state of emergency before Januarys Parliamentary elections, threatening to boycott the vote if he failed to comply

Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa states that, "We condemn this assassination and terrorist act, and pray for God Almighty to bless her soul".

Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

Bhutto is killed leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh, where she had given a spirited address to party supporters in the run-up to the January 2008 Parliamentary elections.

Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

The United Nations Security Council holds an emergency meeting and unanimously condemns the assassination.

Death of Benazir Bhutto

Bhutto is killed leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh, where she had given a spirited address to party supporters in the run-up to the January 2008 Parliamentary elections

Election

Bhutto is killed leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh, where she had given a spirited address to party supporters in the run-up to the January 2008 Parliamentary elections

UN Security Council

The United Nations Security Council holds an emergency meeting and unanimously condemns the assassination

Death of Benazir Bhutto

Death of Benazir Bhutto

Role range: 1988-1990

Burial

Bhuttos body is flown to her hometown of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in Larkana District, Sindh, and is buried next to her father in the family mausoleum at a ceremony attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners

Death of Benazir Bhutto

The Interior Ministry of Pakistan states that "Bhutto was killed when she tried to duck back into the vehicle, and the shock waves from the blast knocked her head into a lever attached to the sunroof, fracturing her skull"

Election

Bhutto declares her intention to return to Pakistan within 2007, which she did, in spite of Musharrafs statements of May 2007 about not allowing her to return ahead of the countrys general election, due late 2007 or early 2008

Exile of Benazir Bhutto

Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed states that officials agreed to grant Benazir Bhutto amnesty versus pending corruption charges. Bhutto declares her intention to return to Pakistan within 2007, which she did, in spite of Musharrafs statements of May 2007 about not allowing her to return ahead of the countrys general election, due late 2007 or early 2008