On Friday 20 July 2007 Ms Benazir Bhutto, Chairperson Pakistan People's Party (PPP) & Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, addressed the IISS on "The Future of Democracy in Pakistan" from 12pm.
Streamed coverage of this event is available for the speech and Q&A session.
Ms Benazir Bhutto is the Chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and former Prime Minister of Pakistan. She became Prime Minister of Pakistan for the first time on 2 December 1988 at the age of 35. She was the youngest and the first woman Prime Minister to lead a Muslim nation in the modern age. Due to political differences with the President of Pakistan, she was dismissed as Prime Minister on 6 August 1990. Nonetheless, she returned to power as Prime Minister for the second time on 19 October 1993 on the basis of winning a majority of seats in the general elections. However, she was again dismissed by the President of Pakistan on 5 November 1996.
Ms Benazir Bhutto is the author of two books, Foreign Policy in Perspective (1978) and her autobiography, Daughter of the East (1989). The second edition of her autobiography was brought out earlier this year. Several collections of her speeches have been compiled and published. She has received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Harvard University, and is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and St. Catherine's College, Oxford. She is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities, and a former President of the Oxford Union. She lives in the UAE.
We are delighted to welcome Ms Benazir Bhutto to address the IISS at a critical juncture for politics in Pakistan and its regional and global implications.
