A cikin 1988, an sake kafa dimokuradiyya a Pakistan tare da zaɓe gama gari bayan mutuwar shugaba Zia-ul-Haq.Wadannan zabukan dai sun kai ga dawowar jam'iyyar Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) kan karagar mulki, inda Benazir Bhutto ta zama Firayi ministar Pakistan mace ta farko kuma mace ta farko da ta shugabanci gwamnati a kasar da ke da rinjayen musulmi.Wannan lokacin, wanda ya kasance har zuwa 1999, yana da tsarin tsarin jam'iyyu biyu masu gasa, tare da masu ra'ayin mazan jiya na tsakiya karkashin jagorancin Nawaz Sharif da masu ra'ayin gurguzu na tsakiya a karkashin Benazir Bhutto.A lokacin mulkinta, Bhutto ta jagoranci Pakistan ta matakin karshe na yakin cacar baka , tana kiyaye manufofin goyon bayan kasashen yamma saboda rashin yarda da kwaminisanci daya.Gwamnatinta ta shaida janyewar sojojin Soviet daga Afghanistan .Sai dai kuma gano aikin bam na nukiliya na Pakistan ya haifar da dagula dangantaka da Amurka tare da sanya takunkumin tattalin arziki.Ita ma gwamnatin Bhutto ta fuskanci kalubale a Afganistan, inda ta gaza shiga tsakani na soja wanda ya kai ga korar daraktocin hukumar leken asiri.Duk da kokarin farfado da tattalin arzikin kasar, ciki har da shirin shekaru biyar na bakwai, Pakistan ta fuskanci tabarbarewar tattalin arziki, kuma daga karshe shugaban masu ra'ayin rikau Ghulam Ishaq Khan ya kori gwamnatin Bhutto.