Benazir (بے نظیر) is the Persian-Urdu word for "without equal, unparalleled." **Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007)** was the **two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990, 1993-1996) — the first woman democratically elected to lead a Muslim-majority country**. **Daughter of executed PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto**, she was educated at Harvard and Oxford and assassinated by a gunman-bomber in Rawalpindi while campaigning for a third term in 2007. **Her *Daughter of the East* (1988) remains the definitive memoir of South Asian political dynasty.**
Recipient of the UN Human Rights Award (2008, posthumous) and the Galileo 2000 Prize (2008).
Benazir reduces to eight — the number of Pakistan's first female PM.