Benazir Bhutto whom she was a champion of democracy and women's rights. Bhutto was born on 21 June 1953 in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Her father was the politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and her mother was Begum Nusrat Ispahani, of Iranian Kurdish parentage. Zulfikar was the son of Shah Nawaz Bhutto, a prominent politician who had served as Prime Minister of the Junagadh State. The Bhuttos were aristocratic, wealthy landlords from Sindh. They were Sunni Muslims, although Nusrat had been born into a Shia Muslim family before converting to Sunnism on her marriage. The couple had married in September 1951, and
Bhutto family Benazir Bhutto, have been the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the past, whereas Asif Ali Zardari, widower of Benazir, served as the President of Pakistan, from 2008 to 2013. Bhuttos originally migrated to Sindh in the early 18th century from the neighboring region of Rajputana (now Rajasthan in India). Bhutto's paternal ancestors were Solanki Rajputs, who converted to Islam in the late 17th century. Muhammad Khan (Vijay Singh) was the first member of the Bhutto family, who converted to Islam, to reap tax exemptions forslims and gain lands as they were not given lands by King of Jodhpur , during