... political positions fit in with women's status in Islam?' (Esposito JL, 1987, pp 69-78). This will seek to give evidence to help answer this question and relate this to the primarily Islamic nation-states of Pakistan and Bangladesh specifically. On December 2, 1988 Benazir Bhutto became the first female Prime Minister to lead a predominantly Islamic-based nation-state. Her time in office in Pakistan proved to be controversial and received much criticism with little achieved in her first two years of leadership. Her party, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), lost the elections in 1990 but Bhutto regained her power, with much more enthusiasm, in 1993 with the re-election of the PPP. Her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was executed in 1978 through his controversial conviction of 'conspiracy to murder'. The question still remains: 'Was Benazir Bhutto justified in being allowed to be elected as the political leader of Pakistan under Islamic law?' (Esposito JL, 1987, ...

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