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 BHUTTOMilitary hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Democracy is the best revenge.
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