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 2000 International Achievement Summit in London, England, Benazir Bhutto speaks of Pakistan's painful transition to democracy and of the difficulties she has had to overcome in her own life. She shares her struggles as a leader and imagines how she might do things differently if elected again to serve her people. She tells the Academy's student delegates that she will never give up hope, and urges the students to remember that one person can always make a difference.