Benazir Bhutto: life in pictures

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Benazir with ZAB and Indian PM Indira Gandhi in 1972.

BB puts on a brave face after ZAB was hanged by the Zia dictatorship in April 1979.

A one-year-old Benazir Bhutto (BB) with mother, Nusrat Bhutto. BB was born in June 1953 in Karachi. She was the first-born child of ZA Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto.

In 1981, Benazir formed a multiparty opposition alliance, the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD).

BB being tried at a military court.

BB with her children Bilawal, Aseefa and Bakhtawar.

PPP leader and former Punjab governor Salman Taseer with Benazir Bhutto.

In 1987, BB married Asif Ali Zardari.

Lahore, 1986. BB returned to Pakistan in 1986. A mammoth crowd greeted her in the city.

BB handing the 1996 cricket world cup trophy to the Sri Lankan captain in Lahore.

BB and Nawaz met in London to sign a ‘charter of democracy.’

BB returned in 2007 to a thunderous welcome in Karachi.

BB’s comeback rally was attacked by suicide bombers. Dozens were killed. BB survived.

December 2007: BB campaigning in Rawalpindi. This was her last ever rally.

People leave flowers and candles on the site of the attack.

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