Movement for the Restoration of Democracy
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The Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD), Urdu: اتحاد برائے بحالی جمہوریت, was a political alliance in Pakistan founded in 1981 by the political parties opposing the military government of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth president of Pakistan. Headed by Benazir Bhutto of the Pakistan People's Party, its objective was the end of martial law and restoration of the democracy.
4 year old Fraz Wahlah, with his father MS Wahlah behind him, holding Peoples Party flag & leading an MRD protest against General Zia's martial law shortly before his arrest making him youngest prisoner of the military dictator.
Benazir Bhutto
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Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.
Bhutto in 2006
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, her father, was the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the founding chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.
Bhutto took her undergraduate degree at Radcliffe College, Harvard.
At the University of Oxford, Bhutto stayed at Lady Margaret Hall for her undergraduate studies.