Abstract
This study attempts to explore, investigate and analyze Benazir Bhutto’s
political leadership by focusing on her role as a ruler/Prime Minister of Pakistan
in 1988-90 and 1993-96. The study will encapsulate political challenges,
administrative difficulties and managerial response of Benazir Bhutto; to these
issues as the first women Prime Minister of Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, as a Prime
Minister of Pakistan for two terms took significant steps, worked for democratic
stability, addressed socio economic challenges and tried to address social issues
like women health, poverty and economic deprivation. Her opponents like Nawaz
Sharif did not let her to run the governments smoothly and adopted all those tools
and tactics which could destabilize her government which was, infact, the main
drawback of the power struggle of 1990s. Her governments were dismissed on the
pretext of corruption, nepotism and bad governance; however, she managed to
rule Pakistan twice besides all these odds which are unique in the history of
Pakistan. Therefore, it is of immense significant to understand the leadership
qualities of lady leader in a society where women are at the margins and still she
emerged as a head of main political party Pakistan Peoples’ Party(PPP) and
became Prime Minister twice
Muhammad Azeem, Muhammad Kashif Ali, Ahmad Hassan, Saeed Ahmad. (2018) Revisiting Benazir Bhutto’s political services during 1988-1996: An Overview, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 55, Issue 1.
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