What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live in peace forever.

Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

Every time I tried kissing happiness, it came very close to me and then pushed me away.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 19

If you want to live like a Republican, you've got to vote for a Democrat.

When I am old, I shall wear purple.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.