KARACHI – Benazir Bhutto, the first woman prime minister in the Muslim world, is being remembered on her 14th death anniversary.
The two-time prime minister of Pakistan was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack in Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007 after she returned to the country during the same year after long exile.
Benazir’s 14th death anniversary today | PPP Jalsa at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh#BenazirBhuttoShaheed #27DecemberBlackday #WohLarkiLalQalandarThi pic.twitter.com/4lxwFZHr6u
— Pakistan Observer (@pakobserver) December 27, 2021
The main ceremony of the anniversary is being held at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto today while events are also being held in various regions to remember Benazir Bhutto. PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and other party leaders will address the gathering in Larkana.
Taking to Twitter, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari shared a collage featuring his mother and her tomb.
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari also expressed her feelings.
“Our mother Shaheed #BenazirBhutto missed more now than I did when I got my grades for college or whilst graduating, even when I was planning my wedding, marriage ceremony, months of pregnancy- now with my newborn – she would have been a grandmother for the first time this year,” she wrote.
Our mother Shaheed #BenazirBhutto missed more now than I did when I got my grades for college or whilst graduating, even when I was planning my wedding, marriage ceremony, months of pregnancy- now with my newborn – she would have been a grandmother for the first time this year 💔 https://t.co/jJLIMHG6xF
— Bakhtawar B-Zardari (@BakhtawarBZ) December 26, 2021
Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, elected premier from 1988 to 1990 and then again from 1993 to 1996.
