I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

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

I am chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.