All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

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.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

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.

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. 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.