Benazir Bhutto was Pakistan's first female prime minister in a country where women were marginalized from public life — and she was removed from power twice on corruption charges. She was a Harvard and Oxford graduate, the daughter of an executed prime minister, and a symbol of democratic resistance who governed with the same dynastic patronage networks she had promised to dismantle. She was assassinated at a campaign rally in 2007.

This episode traces Bhutto from her privileged childhood through her father's execution, the years of imprisonment and exile, the two prime ministerships marred by corruption, and the assassination that silenced Pakistan's most famous political voice.

• The Bhutto political dynasty and Benazir's Western education at Harvard and Oxford
• Her father Zulfikar's execution by Zia ul-Haq and the radical ...