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

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Benazir Bhutto
Age: 54 †
Born: 1953
Born: June 21
Died: 2007
Died: December 27
Former Prime Minister Of Pakistan
Politician
Heart of Pakistan
Benazir
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Daughter of the East
Bhutto
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As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
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I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
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In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.
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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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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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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.
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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.
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Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us.
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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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