Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's 12th Prime Minister and the first female leader of a Muslim country, was murdered by a suicide bomber in Rawalpindi in 2007.
Benazir Bhutto was the first Muslim woman to head a country. On December 27, 2007, a 15-year-old suicide bomber named Bilal assassinated Bhutto. She had barely completed speaking at an electoral rally in Rawalpindi when he approached her convoy, fired at her, and blew himself up. The Pakistani Taliban had asked Bilal to carry out the attack.
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