Benazir Bhutto killed

6.00.00pm GMT Thu 27th Dec 2007

The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who has been killed, aged 54, in a bomb attack at a political rally in Rawalpindi.

She was born in the southern port of Karachi, the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, an ambitious minor landowner in the province of Sindh who founded one of Pakistan's two major political parties and went on to become the country's prime minister.

Her father was executed in 1979 by the military dictator Zia ul-Haq.

In exile, she took on the leadership of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), She was Prime Minister from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996.

She recently returned to Pakistan after being exiled to attempt to become Prime Minister for a third time.