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.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.

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.