in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.