Benazir Bhutto inherited the control of PPP (Pakistan’s People Party) from her father and won the election in 1988 thus becoming the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim nation. She also became the first woman to be elected as the head of a Muslim State. Her charisma and intelligent made her a feminist legacy throughout all Muslim countries. At only the age of 29 she became the chairperson of the center-left PPP.

She was a founding member of a group the Council of Women World Leaders in 1996. She highlighted the need to heal past wounds and to put an end to the divisions in Pakistan society, including reducing discrimination between men and women. She appointed women judges and a women’s division in government led by senior female civil servant. Bhutto was an economist by profession that is why during her terms as prime minister, she herself took charge of Minister of Finance.

Her accomplishments and gallant struggles made her won several honorary awards including Bruno Kreisky Award for Human rights 1988, the Phi Beta Kappa Award presented by Radcliff College 1989. She also received the Highest French Award the Grand-Croix de la Legion D’Honneur 1989. In 1990 she won The Noel Foundation Award (UNIFEM).

She received the Gakushuin Honorary Award Tokyo 1996, Medal of the University of California at Los Angeles UCLA 1995. She has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law L.L.D Harvard University 1989. In the following year she gained Honorary Fellowship by Lady Margeret Hall, University of Oxford. Honorary Doctorate of Law (Honoris Causa) from University of Sindh Pakistan, Honorary Doctorate from Mendanao State University Philippines 1995.Honorary Doctorate of Law (Honoris Causa) University of Peshawar Pakistan 1995. She has also addressed an historic US Joint Session of Congress 1989.

She has been called The World’s most popular politician in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1996. The London Times included her in the list of One hundred most powerful women in the same year.