New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the second elected leader in the world to hold office while pregnant. Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto gave birth while she was prime minister in 1990.
Sherry Rehman, a former diplomat, has become the country's first opposition leader in the upper house of parliament as women take on more prominent roles in Pakistani politics.
Krishna Kumari hails from the so-called Hindu untouchables and was elected from a reserved seat for women in southern Sindh province. Deposed premier Nawaz Sharif's party came first to gain control of parliament's upper house in the polls.
Thousands of people flocked to the shrine of Benazir Bhutto, the popular former Pakistani Prime Minister, who was killed in 2007.
Pakistani court calls former president Pervez Musharraf an "absconder" and acquits five people accused of involvement in former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto assasination.
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