 Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return. |
| The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes. |
| The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges. |
| The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice. |
| Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism. |
| It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails. |
| I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. |
| Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. |
| 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've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. |
| The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges. |
| 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. |
| Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. |
| The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress. |
| I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. |
