Bhutto's Political Legacy

Born on June 21, 1953, and passing away on December 27, 2007, Benazir Bhutto served as both the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan, initially from 1988 to 1990 and then again from 1993 to 1996.

As the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a notable political figure who led Pakistan from 1971 to 1977, Benazir Bhutto hailed from a distinguished political family in Karachi, Pakistan. Departing her homeland at the age of 16, she pursued studies at Harvard’s Radcliffe College.

Her educational journey led her to Harvard University, where she earned her B.A. in 1973. Subsequently, she delved into philosophy, political science, and economics at the University of Oxford, completing her B.A. in 1976 and securing a postgraduate degree in international law (M.A., 1977).

Her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, faced political upheaval in the mid-1970s, being ousted and executed in 1979. During the ensuing period of political turbulence, Benazir Bhutto endured almost six years of imprisonment or house arrest due to her leadership role in the opposition Pakistan People's Party.

Upon being elected co-chairwoman of the Pakistan People’s Party alongside her mother, Benazir Bhutto assumed the role of Prime Minister when free elections occurred in 1988. At the age of 35, she became one of the world's youngest chief executives and the first woman to hold the position of prime minister in an Islamic country.

Unfortunately, Benazir Bhutto met a tragic end in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, succumbing to a firearm and bomb attack immediately after addressing an election rally on December 27.
Bhutto's Political Legacy

Abdus Salam - Nobel Prize Winner

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Abdus Salam was educated at the Punjab University and St. John College , Cambridge, where he was awarded his PhD.in 1952. 

He taught at the Punjab University (1951-1954)and briefly at Cambridge University before in 1957 to Imperial College, London as professor of physics.

Salam is a particle physicist whose most successful work has been the unification of the weak and electromagnetioc forces. 

Similar but independent results were published at the same time by Weinberg in the USA. Coming from the third world, Salam was acutely aware of intellectual isolation of promising young physicists and mathematicians.
To stimulate the growth of science in the world , in 1964 Slam set up the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, where many young scientists form underdeveloped world have met to exchange ideas and learn new techniques. 

Slam has been director of this center since its inception and shares his time between Imperial College and Trieste.Biography of Famous People