New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinta Arden pays tribute to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at Harvard University. Jacinta remembers Benazir Bhutto at a ceremony to address graduates in the new academic year.
In 1989, Bhutto arrived at the same venue. At the time, Bhutto spoke of citizenship, government, human rights and democracy, and called for the unification of democracies. Jacinta said she understood Bhutto’s words that democracy could be weakened when she was in the same position in New Zealand today.
Benazir Bhutto is the first Muslim woman Prime Minister to be elected from an Islamic country. She was assassinated seven months after meeting Bhutto at the World Progressive Party conference in Geneva in 2007. The New Zealand Prime Minister also shared the similarity between Jacinta and Bhutto giving birth to children at work.