BHUTTO TIMELINE
June 1953 Born in Karachi
1969 Gains degree from Harvard
1973 Her father, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, founder of Pakistan People’s Party, becomes prime minister
1977 Awarded a second degree from the University of Oxford. Days after returning to Pakistan, Gen Zia ul Haq seizes power from her father
1979 Her father is executed by the military government
1979-1984: Arrested several times and placed under house arrest for three years
1984 Returns to London and becomes leader in exile of PPP
1986: Returns to Pakistan after martial law lifted 1988 Becomes the first woman elected as prime minister of an Islamic country
1990 Dismissed from office for alleged corruption
1993 Re-elected as prime minister but faces fierce opposition
1996 Again dismissed from office on corruption charges
1997 Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, imprisoned and Bhutto goes into self-imposed exile
1999 Army chief Pervez Musharraf takes power in bloodless coup
2001 Bhutto sentenced to three years in prison for failing to appear in court to face corruption charges
2004 Bhutto and her husband receive sixmonth suspended sentences from a Swiss court for money laundering
October 2007 Bhutto returns to Pakistan ahead of elections
October 19, 2007 Survives suicide bombing that kills 150 people at a rally in Karachi
December 27, 2007 Bhutto is assassinated in a gun and suicide bomb attack at an election rally in Rawalpindi. Another 24 people killed
August 31, 2017 Anti-terrorism court acquits five members of Tehreek-e-Taliban of her killing and declares Musharraf a fugitive from justice in the case