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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOPakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man’s place in the Islamic society.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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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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All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
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