Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto born in 1953 in the province of Sindh, completed her education at Oxford University. She also attended Harvard.

Ms Bhutto was Pakistan's prime minister twice. The first term of office between 1988 and 1990.

Benazir Bhutto was part of a political dynasty. She visited India in 1972 with her father, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, to meet Indira Gandhi.

During both her stints in power, the role of Ms Bhutto's husband, Asif Zardari, proved highly controversial as he was accused of stealing state funds - charges he denied

She had been dismissed in 1990 on charges of corruption but was never tried.

Ms Bhutto was re-elected in 1993 and served as prime minister until 1996, again being dismissed for alleged corruption.

She remained in Pakistan until 1999 but then left to live abroad as questions remained about her and her husband's wealth.

Ms Bhutto lived in self-imposed exile after Pervez Musharraf assumed power in 1999. But she always planned to return. She met Nawaz Sharif in London in 2006

Finally, in October 2007, she boarded a flight from Dubai to Pakistan to take on the presidency of General Musharraf.

Shortly after, she survived bomb attacks on her convoy in the southern city of Karachi that killed more than 100 people.

But Ms Bhutto said she would not be cowed and continued to campaign for the restoration of democracy and, some say, a third term as prime minister.

This is the last known image of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto alive.

Bhutto seen at her last election rally in Liaquat Bagh Park, Rawalpindi, shortly before she was killed. The park was where Pakistan’s first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in October 1951.

Benazir Bhutto followed her father into politics, and both of them died because of it - he was executed in 1979, she fell victim to an apparent suicide bomb attack. Her two brothers also suffered violent deaths. Shahnawaz, was found dead in his French Riviera apartment in 1985. Another brother Murtaza, shot dead under mysterious circumstances in 1996.

Like the Nehru-Gandhi family in India, the Bhuttos of Pakistan are one of the world's most famous political dynasties.