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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.

Benazir Bhutto

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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Country Dictatorship Military Yoke
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Beholder Eye Hijab
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Empowering Leader Women
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
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Issues Leader Mother
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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Country Mosque Religion Voting Women
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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Birth Culture Gun Law Military
Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won’t let it be free.
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Children Father Grief
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Mean Needs Peace
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.
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Giving People Taken
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracies Democracy Support
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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Done Mean Political
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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People Return Support
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Men Party Political
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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Ministers Prime Want
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Government Opportunity People

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