Beautiful, charismatic, Benazir Bhutto is not only the first woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, she achieved a status approaching that of a royal prinsess - both in her native Pakistan and around the world.
But after two terms in office she was stripped of her power in another example of the bitter political in-fighting that has riven her country.

Benazir grew up in one of the country's richest families. Having received an international education, she became politicised after her father's execution at the hands of General Zia in 1979 and was first elected Prime Minister in 1988.