Mujibur Rahman
Mujibur Rahman widely known as “Bangabandhu” was a Bangladeshi politician. Known as the “Father of the Nation” and was the Founder President of Bangladesh. Later became the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from April 1971 until his assassination in August 1975.
On 15 August 1975, a coup was planned by disgruntled Awami League colleagues and military officers who were led by Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, and they targeted to exterminate his entire family. Only his daughters Sheikh Hasina, current Prime Minster of Bangladesh and Sheikh Rehana escaped and survived.
Liaquat Ali Khan
Liaquat Ali Khan was a Pakistani statesman, political theorist and forefront leaders during Pakistan Movement activists. On 15 August 1947, Khan became the first prime minister of Pakistan until his assassination in 1951.
On 16 October 1951, Khan was shot twice in the chest while he was addressing a gathering of 100,000 at Company Bagh (Company Gardens), Rawalpindi. Upon his death, Khan was given the honorific title of “Martyr of the Nation”.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, and was considered to be the father of his country. He is internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest to achieve political and social progress.
On January 30, while he was on his way to his evening prayer meeting in Delhi, he was shot down by Nathuram Godse, a young Hindu fanatic. Nathuram Godse believed that Gandhi treated Muslims with more respect than Hindus.
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi was an Indian politician representing the Indian National Congress, who served as Prime Minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 19780 until her assassination in October 1984, making her the second longest-serving Indian prime minister after her father, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of India.
She was assassinated by her own personal bodyguards in retaliation for Operation Blue Star.
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian Prime minister at the age of 40.
He was assassinated while campaigning by an explosion triggered by a LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam) suicide bomber. First politician to be killed by a suicide bomber.
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was the first and the only woman prime ministers of Pakistan.
On the morning of 27 December 2007, she was killed by an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber while entering a vehicle upon leaving a political rally for the Pakistan People’s Party in Rawalpindi.
Shinzo Abe
Shinzo Abe was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan and President of the Liberal prime minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history.
Abe was shot at twice while he was giving a speech on a street in the city of Nara. The suspect, named as Tetsuya Yamagami, admitted shooting Abe with a homemade gun, and said he had a grudge against a “specific organisation”, police said.
