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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.

Benazir Bhutto

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
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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Age Intellectual Religion
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
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Diplomats Father Jobs
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
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Foundation Justice All Liberty
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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California Technology Valleys
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Beholder Eye Hijab
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Opportunity People Rights
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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Men People Religion
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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Addresses Problem Satisfaction
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
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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Asia Government Military
The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated… Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
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Courage Democracy Fighting
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Government Opportunity People
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
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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Giving Matter Self
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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Accomplish Democracy Generation Goal

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