Benazir Bhutto Carmen Robles and Carlos Adrian Vasile Hello, I am Benazir Bhutto, a Pakistani woman. I was born in Pakistan the 21st of June of 1953 and I died in Rawalpindi, the 27 of December of 2007. I am a social democratic Pakistani politician who led the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), a center-left political party affiliated with the Socialist International. To have achieve all this, I had to work very hard because, after the military coup by General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, my dad Zulfikar Alí Bhutto, the president of the Republic of Pakistan, was removed from office, sentenced to death and executed. All this political situation in which the country was, made that my political ideas weren’t "correct" at that time, that I suffered house arrest and that I was forced to leave the country. My family always remained me that men and women were equal in aptitudes and possibilities but, nevertheless, it wasn´t easy to be woman and president at the same time. That is why I have always cared and manifested for women's rights. During election campaigns, my political party expressed concern for the health and social issues of Pakistani women and wanted to abolish the laws that restricted our rights. But, once in power, I never carried out these promises of improving the living conditions of women because of the pressure exerted by opposition parties and the oppression that I received.
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