Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins the first free elections in 11 years in 1988.
The PPP of Pakistan's Bhutto won the first free elections for the first time in 11 years. Despite allegations of vote rigging against the PPP and the use of the ID card rule to prevent its less well-organized and less well-off supporters from voting, Bhutto won the election by a margin of more than 8%, defeating the IJI's nine-party alliance.
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