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

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

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.

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

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.