Open AccessBenazir Bhutto as an Administrator
Author(s) -
Ms. Sumbal Tariq,
Prof. Dr. Iram Khalid,
Rehana Saeed Hashmi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of law and social studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2709-6270
pISSN - 2709-2283
DOI - 10.52279/jlss.03.02.165173
Subject(s) - prime minister , government (linguistics) , administration (probate law) , political science , islam , power (physics) , prime (order theory) , face (sociological concept) , law , public administration , sociology , politics , history , social science , philosophy , linguistics , physics , mathematics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , combinatorics
Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim country. She was also the first politician in Pakistan who was elected Prime Minister twice. Her leadership abilities brought several unique and unprecedented measures in Pakistan. Nonetheless, she had to face a lot of challenges in both of her tenures which included a rift with the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) led rule in Punjab that objected her leadership as un-Islamic based on her gender. This rift eventually discontented the President Ghulam Ishaq Khan who dissolved assemblies only two years after she rose to power. Similar issue happened with her government in 1996 when the President Farooq Leghari dissolved the assemblies bringing an end to her second term as Prime Minister and that also two years earlier than its official expiry. Nonetheless, during her both short-lived terms as Prime Minister of Pakistan, she proved herself as a far-sighted leader who made some valuable administrative contributions to the country. Her administration also made some unprecedented measures which were also replicated by the forthcoming governments. This article explores her administrative contributions and it also mentions the challenges she had to face as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.