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Benazir Bhutto: Trivia- Her agenda was to seek reconciliation, peace, ending militancy, eradicating poverty, building institutions of civil rule and democracy, spreading education and providing hope to the people of Pakistan for a better future.
- Sworn enemies :
Baitullah Mehsud, the most prominent militant commander in the lawless region of South Waziristan, is allied to al-Qaeda and the Taleban.
Haji Omar, a Taleban commander in Waziristan.
Hamza Bin Laden
- Ambition - To join the Pakistani Foreign Service but was asked to join politics by her father
- Attire - A headscarf and traditional tunic and trousers
- 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
- In January 1977, she was the first Asian woman to be elected the President of the Oxford Union Debating Society.
- Her paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, came to Larkana Sindh before partition from his native town of Bhatto Kalan, Haryana.
- The first modern head of state to give birth while in office.
- Loved to wear big watches.
- In her Harvard days she used to drive around in a yellow sports car.
- Loved to wear jewellery.
- Considered herself as a defender of women’s rights not feminist.
- 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.
- The name Benazir means “without comparison”.
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