Benazir Bhutto was 1st-ever female leader of a Muslim nation
Former two-time Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was the first-ever female leader of a Muslim nation. Benazir, along with her mother Nusrat Bhutto, inherited the leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party after the execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979. She was assassinated on December 27, 2007, at a rally in Rawalpindi, in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.