Years later, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was in jail and on trial in Lahore, Benazir and her mother Nusrat Bhutto rented a house in the city to be closer to him.
In 1986, Benazir Bhutto chose to return from exile to the same Lahore. She received a historic welcome by more than a million people, who rallied behind her in the face of the oppressive regime of the military dictator Gen Ziaul Haq.