"We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people"
"Every tour leading up to the World Cup is important as we want to win everything so that the confidence level of the boys is sky high when they arrive in the West Indies. And to achieve that goal, we need to have the best players to accomplish the task. In this background, it is a body blow for us that our strike bowler will not be available for the Sri Lanka tour "
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want"
"Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do"
"We want democracy and nothing else. I am here to play my role and also make my own efforts to rid the country of dictatorship"
"If I can live life the way I want to, why can't you do it."
"If you want to get the issue bogged down, I can do that. But we don't want to get others involved. We are moving forward bilaterally. So we are not involving the UN secretary general. The course we have adopted is best"
"I appeal to Pakistan's majority to assure that those people who want to harm Pakistan not damage any part of it"
"I am going to postpone that (F-16s purchase)...but while we want to carry out massive relief and reconstruction effort, the other important issue is the security concern of Pakistan,"
"es, I am going to postpone that, ... I always say that while this is a concern - we want to bring maximum relief and reconstruction effort - the other issue, the aircraft, are a issue of security concern for Pakistan. We should never do something that jeopardizes one or the other. So, both have their importance"