Benazir Bhutto (1953 - 2007) was twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first woman ever to serve as prime minister of an Islamic country. But the road that brought her to power led through exile, imprisonment and devastating personal tragedy. Only days after young Benazir Bhutto returned to her native Pakistan from university studies abroad, the country's elected government was overthrown. Her father, Prime Minister Ali Bhutto, was imprisoned and hanged. Young Benazir too was repeatedly arrested, then imprisoned, and finally forced into exile, but she never abandoned the hope of restoring democracy to her homeland. She returned to lead a pro-democracy movement, and when free elections were finally held in Pakistan in 1988, Benazir Bhutto herself became Prime Minister. She made hunger and health care her top priorities, brought electricity to the countryside, and built schools all over the country. Although she was herself a devout Muslim, her reforms frequently brought her into conflict with the same religious fundamentalists who had opposed the election of a woman as Prime Minister. She was elected a second time in 1993, but the president of the country dismissed her from office and dissolved the National Assembly. A military coup drove her from the country yet again, but after more than eight years in exile, Bhutto returned to Pakistan in 2007. Weeks before a national election in which Bhutto and her party were expected to prevail, she was assassinated by a suicide bomber. Her death was a devastating loss to her country, but the cause of democracy she championed is carried on by her family and followers. In this audio podcast, recorded at the 2002 International Achievement Summit in Dublin, Ireland, Benazir Bhutto addresses the terror attacks of September 2001, and their implications for the future. She defends the progressive democratic regime she headed in Pakistan, and opposes it to the extremist fanaticism of her opponents. She draws a connection between reactionary forces in Pakistan and the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. She calls for peaceful cooperation between Pakistan and India, and for democracy throughout the region. "Democracies," she asserts, "do not start wars, and do not promote terrorism."