It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
BENAZIR BHUTTOMy father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
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It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
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The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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