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 BHUTTOPolitical dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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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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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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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Pakistan 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.
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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.
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The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.
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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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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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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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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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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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