In the postcolonial era, Benazir Bhutto a Pakistani the first such woman, as prime minister from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996 led a Muslim nation, faced accusations of corruption, went into self-imposed exile from 1998 to 2007, and afterward returned to reenter politics; people subsequently assassinated her at a campaign rally.

Benazir Bhutto chaired the center-left Peoples Party. People twice elected Bhutto to lead a state. She ranks as the only female to date.

Bhutto, the eldest child of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, of Sindhi and Shia faith, and Begum Nusrat Bhutto of Iranian and Kurdish descent. From town of Bhatto Kalan, situated in the Indian state of Haryana, Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, her paternal grandfather, came to district of Larkana in Sindh before the independence.

People swore Bhutto for the time in 1988 at the age of 35 years, but from office on alleged grounds, the order of Ghulam Ishaq Khan, then president, removed her. In 1993, people reelected her.

Farooq Leghari, president, again removed Benazir Bhutto in 1996 on similar charges at this time. She moved in 1998 into Dubai.

Bhutto reached an understanding with Pervez Musharraf, president, who granted amnesty and withdrew all charges, and returned on 18 October 2007. She, an opposition candidate, led and departed peoples party in the city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled general election of 2008.