Benazir Bhutto, the most influential woman in the world and former prime minister of Pakistan was killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi on Thursday. She had just addressed a campaign rally for next month's parliamentary elections when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the venue killing her and at least 10 other people. It was the second suicide attack at a Bhutto event since she had returned from exile in October, aiming to contest the elections, and comes amid an unprecedented wave of violence in the country. The deadliest terror attack in Pakistan's history targetted her homecoming rally just hours after her return, leaving 139 people dead. Bhutto, educated at Oxford and Harvard, became the first female prime minister of a Muslim country when she took the helm in Pakistan in 1988. Her father, also a Pakistani prime minister, was also assassinated, in 1979.
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