Ghinwa had fled from the Lebanese Civil War back home and migrated to Syria, where she used to give ballet classes in the basement of a church.
Benazir convinced her mother Nusrat Bhutto, then president of the Pakistan Peoples Party, to run against her.
Ghinwa was rejected on the grounds of not possessing the required minimum academic qualification of a university degree.
[7] In August 2007, Ghinwa Bhutto passed the BA exams from Punjab University in the First Division with 526 marks.
[8] After the first suicide attack following Benazir's return to Pakistan in October 2007, Ghinwa remarked: "I think she has invited trouble herself.