RAWALPINDI -- Benazir Bhutto, 54, the first woman to have been elected Prime Minister of an Islamic state, and who just last October emerged from her self-imposed exile of eight years to return to Pakistan, was assassinated in late December 2007. A suicide bomber hit crowds gathered to hear her speak at a Pakistan People's Party rally in Rawalpindi. Bhutto spent five years in prison and had been dogged by accusations of corruption and money laundering, which she said were politically motivated. She returned to Pakistan in October when she was given amnesty by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. She was a popular leader whom many viewed as key to a democratic Pakistan and to ...

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