NEW : Bhutto : Bhutto `` refused to allow assassins to dictate the course of her country '' Bhutto was first female prime minister of a Islamic country . Benazir Bhutto survived assassination attempt in 1979 . ` Soon thereafter , I was asked by authorities not to travel in cars with tinted windows -- which protected me from identification by terrorists -- or travel with privately armed guards , '' she wrote for CNN.com in November . Her father , a former prime minister , was hanged in October .
NEW : Bhutto : Bhutto `` refused to allow assassins to dictate the course of her country '' Bhutto was first female prime minister of a Islamic country . Benazir Bhutto survived assassination attempt in 1979 . Her father , a former prime minister , was hanged in October .