Benazir Bhutto: Life of blood, controversy

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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto assassinated.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses a news conference in Karachi, Pakistan, on Dec. 13. Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Bhutto and political rival Nawaz Sharif at a news conference after their meeting in Islamabad earlier this month.

Bhutto speaks at a campaign rally in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on Dec. 17.

Bhutto, shown earlier this month, was killed along with at least 20 others at a campaign rally.

Bhutto waves to supporters as she arrives in Karachi from Dubai on Oct. 18. She had returned to Pakistan from an eight-year exile.

Bhutto offers prayers at the tomb of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, on Oct. 22.

Bhutto is shown in 2000, before speaking to students at Agnes Scott College in Decatur.

Bhutto and spouse Asif Zardari at the Parliament in Islamabad in undated file photo.

Bhutto, with her son Bilawal and daughter Bakhtawar, takes a stroll with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton in this March 26, 1995, photo at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad.

Bhutto walks with then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the rose garden at Chequers, Thatcher's country residence, in 1989.

Bhutto casts her vote for the first time in her life in the general elections in Larkana, her home district in Karachi, Nov. 16, 1988.

Bhutto, then the Pakistani Populist leader, is sworn in at the national assembly on Nov. 30, 1988.

Bhutto's father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, served as Pakistan's president and prime minister in the 1970s. He is shown in 1979, while waiting for the sentence of The Supreme Court of Pakistan on his conviction and death sentence on a charge of political murder. He was later executed.

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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses a news conference in Karachi, Pakistan, on Dec. 13. Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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