Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former Prime Minister, marries Asif Ali Zardari in 1987.
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the country's 11th and 13th prime ministers, respectively, between 1988 and 1990 and 1993 and 1996. She was the first woman in a Muslim-majority country to lead a democratic government. She headed or co-chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007. She was an ideological liberal and a secularist. In 1987, she married Asif Ali Zardari.
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