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

I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. 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.

Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

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

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.