Benazir Bhutto

Trivia

• The name Benazir means “without comparison”.
• Had a collection of self-help books in her library like Women Who Love Too Much, Self Help for Your Nerves, Secrets about Men that Every Woman Should Know and The Art of Being a Lady.
• Considered herself as a defender of women’s rights not feminist.
• Loved to wear jewellery.
• In her Harvard days she used to drive around in a yellow sports car.
• Loved to wear big watches.
• The first modern head of state to give birth while in office.
• Her paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, came to Larkana Sindh before partition from his native town of Bhatto Kalan, Haryana.
• In January 1977, she was the first Asian woman to be elected the President of the Oxford Union Debating Society.
• At the time of Bhutto's death, the manuscript for her third book, to be called Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, had been received by HarperCollins. The book, written with Mark Siegel, was published in February 2008