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BENAZIR BHUTTOThe 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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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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Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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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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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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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’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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