Benazir Bhutto Daughter of the East Author:Benazir Bhutto Beautiful and charismatic, the daughter of the only popular leader Pakistan has ever produced--President Bhutto, hanged by General Zia in 1979--Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's first woman Prime Minister, has achieved a status approaching that of a royal princess. — From her upbringing in one of Pakistan's richest families, the shock of the contrast of... more » her Radcliffe and Oxford education, and her subsequent politicisation and arrest after her father's death--she spent nearly five years in detention --Benazir Bhutto's life has already been full of drama.« less
I didn't know much about Pakistan before I read this book, but now I feel as though I have a better understanding of the country's history. The descriptions of the executions and prison conditions are terrifying.