Benazir Bhutto4 April 1979
Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan after completing her studies, is placed under house arrest in the wake of her fathers imprisonment and subsequent execution
Pakistan · Politics / Pakistan Peoples Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan after completing her studies, is placed under house arrest in the wake of her fathers imprisonment and subsequent execution
Allowed to return to the United Kingdom, Bhutto becomes a leader in exile of the PPP, her fathers party
Charged with corruption & missuse of power
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
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