(d.2007) She became Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988 and she was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim State.  Before her appointment Ms. Bhutto was detained for nearly six years for she had been leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, at that time opposition party. She pledged to transform Pakistani society and thought against discrimination, launching a nationwide program of health and education reform. She is the author of “Foreign Policy in Perspective” (1978) and her autobiography, “Daughter of Destiny” (1989) received many international prizes, such as the Bruno Kreisky Award for Human Rights and the International Leadership Award. She was assassinated on December 27, 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008 where she was a leading opposition candidate.