Ali Zardari
Ali Zardari
democracy elections fair
will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy .
democracy elections fair region talking
there's a lot happening. Democracy is today's world order. Everybody's talking democracy in the region and the world. And they will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy.
arrest
They say if you come out we're going to arrest you.
arrested blocked coming everybody house plane took within
They arrested me from within the plane and took me on the tarmac in the car, and took me to my house and blocked everybody coming in, ... They say if you come out we're going to arrest you.
acts address against allow assured concerns india leads pakistan territory
Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.
prison time
I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.
assembly coalitions elections form four national parties provincial reached won
When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.
allowed form pakistan soil toward
Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.
aspire economic peace promote strategic understanding
On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.
asked civil close existence federation people
After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
afghan cold ills left mind pakistan society suffered war worst
You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.
courts dependent difficult food including jail prison
As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.
party thinking vacuums
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.
pakistan terrorism evolve
I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.