✅ Assassination Year 27 December 2007:
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27th December 2007
📍 Place: Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
🧨 Cause: Suicide bombing and gunfire attack after a political rally
👤 Context: She was campaigning for the 2008 general elections as the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)
Biography of Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007)
✅ Full Name Benazir Bhutto
✅ Born 21 June 1953, Karachi, Pakistan.
✅ Father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Former Prime Minister & Founder of PPP).
✅ Education Harvard University (Radcliffe College), University of Oxford.
✅ Political Party Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
✅ First Term as PM 1988–1990 (1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country).
✅ Second Term as PM 1993–1996
✅ First Muslim Woman To lead a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.
✅ Husband Asif Ali Zardari (Later became President of Pakistan).
✅ Children Three, including Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
✅ Returned to Pakistan 18 October 2007 (from exile), amid threats from extremists.
✅ Assassination 27 December 2007, during election campaign.
✅ Legacy Symbol of democracy, women’s empowerment, and political struggle.
✅ Book:Benazir Bhutto was not only a political leader but also a writer. Her most well-known book is: Daughter of the East (1988 in English Language) Daughter of the East tells the story of Benazir Bhutto's life—her upbringing, education at Harvard and Oxford, imprisonment, political struggles, and her historic rise as the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim country.It also reflects her views on democracy, Islam, women's rights, and her personal sacrifices.
✅ The Gandhi-Irwin Pact ended the Civil Disobedience Movement
📘 Key Facts
Satyagraha is a form of non-violent resistance or civil disobedience, introduced by Mahatma Gandhi as a powerful tool in the Indian freedom struggle against British rule.
🔹 Pact Name Gandhi-Irwin Pact
🔹 Signed On 5 March 1931
🔹 Between Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin (Viceroy)
🔹 Movement It Ended Civil Disobedience Movement (1930–1931)
🔹 Main Outcome Gandhi agreed to attend the Second Round Table Conference in London
🔹 British Concessions Release of political prisoners (non-violent), return of confiscated lands, etc.
✅ The Civil Disobedience Movement was introduced by: Mahatma Gandhi
📘 Key Details
🔹 Introduced By Mahatma Gandhi
🔹 Officially Launched 12 March 1930
🔹 Started With Dandi March (Salt March) from Sabarmati to Dandi
🔹 Purpose To break unjust British laws through peaceful non-compliance
🔹 Main Act Broken Salt Law (producing salt without tax was illegal)
🔹 Key Slogan "Do or Die" (used later in Quit India Movement)
🔹 Ended Temporarily Gandhi-Irwin Pact, March 1931.