Benazir Bhutto Quotes

• I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

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• Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

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• The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

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• The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

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• Democracy is the best revenge.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Account, Bank

• I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

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• Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

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• The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

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• 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.

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

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• Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

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Benazir Bhutto (16)

Birth:	21st June, 1953
Death:	27th December, 2007
Nationality:	Pakistani
Profession:	Leader

About

Benazir Bhutto was the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms in 1988–90 and then 1993–96. A scion of the politically powerful Bhutto family, she was the eldest daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister himself who founded the centre-left, social-democratic Pakistan Peoples Party.

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