Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Benazir Timeline
Benazir Bhutto, who became the first woman to serve as prime minister of a Muslim country, was assassinated Thursday when an attacker opened fire and then blew himself up after a political rally in Pakistan. Here, a look at key moments in her often stormy life in politics:
June 21, 1953: Benazir Bhutto is born into a wealthy family in southern Pakistan.
1973: Bhutto's father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former Pakistani president, begins serving as prime minister. Benazir Bhutto graduates from Harvard's Radcliffe College.
1976: Bhutto graduates from Oxford University.
April 4, 1979: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed for the murder of a political opponent, two years after his ouster as prime minister in a military coup.
April 10, 1986: Benazir Bhutto returns from exile in London to lead the Pakistan Peoples Party, founded by her father.
December 1988: Bhutto, age 35, becomes the first female prime minister of a Muslim nation after winning parliamentary elections.
Aug. 6, 1990: President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismisses Bhutto's government, citing corruption and a failure to control ethnic violence.
Oct. 19, 1993: Bhutto takes oath for a second term as prime minister.
1996: Bhutto's brother Murtaza dies in a gun battle with police in Karachi. Her brother Shahnawaz had died under mysterious circumstances in France a decade earlier.
Nov. 5, 1996: President Farooq Leghari dismisses Bhutto's second administration amid accusations of nepotism and undermining the justice system.
April 14, 1999: A court finds Bhutto guilty of corruption while she is out of the country. The conviction is later quashed, but Bhutto remains in exile.
Oct. 12, 1999: Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the head of the armed forces, seizes power from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a bloodless coup.
Oct. 5, 2007: Musharraf signs an amnesty covering cases against Bhutto, opening the way for her return and a possible power-sharing agreement.
Oct. 18, 2007: Bhutto returns to Pakistan after more than eight years of exile. She narrowly escapes a suicide bombing that kills nearly 140 people during a homecoming procession in Karachi.
Nov. 9, 2007: Police throw barbed wire around Bhutto's house to keep her from speaking at a rally to protest Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule.
Nov. 13, 2007: Authorities put Bhutto under house arrest again. She urges Musharraf to resign.
Dec. 1, 2007: Bhutto launches her election campaign.
Dec. 27, 2007: Minutes after Bhutto addresses thousands of supporters in Rawalpindi, she and at least 20 others are killed when a gunman opens fire and a suicide bomb explodes.
KARACHI: Met office said Tuesday that lower parts of Sindh including Karachi are likely to have a widespread heavy rainfall alongwith strong dust storm on Friday and Saturday.
According to Cyclone alert-2, the tropical cyclone, located some 1100 kilometers south-southwest of Karachi is expected to move initially in a north-westerly direction in the next 24 hours. After that it is expected to re-curve in northeasterly direction towards Indian Gujrat and Sindh coast.
The tropical cyclone is expected to further intensify into a severe tropical cyclone after crossing 20 degree north on Thursday causing a widespread rain with scattered heavy fall accompanies with gusty winds (60 to 80 knots) along Sindh Makran coast from Thursday evening to Saturday.
The fairly widespread heavy falls with strong gusty winds (80 to 100 knots) are expected over lower Sindh including District Badin, Thatta, Tharparkar, Umer Kot and southern areas of Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas and Karachi.
The sea conditions are going to be rough to very rough in next 48 hours and high tides are also expected to develop near Sindh-Makran coast on Friday and Saturday.
Tropical warning centre of Pakistan Meteorological Department has warned that the fishermen of Sindh and Balochistan who are in the open sea should return to the coast before Wednesday evening. The centre has advised all fishermen not to venture in open sea from Thursday to Saturday.
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