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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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The best revenge is democracy.
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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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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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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We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
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General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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