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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

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Fruit, Cows, Self-Sufficient, My Own

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

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Doing, Agent, Fundamentalist, Islamic

Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

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Proud, Lose, Tournament, Win Or Lose

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

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Trust, Doing, Forced, Commentary

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

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Doing, Nation, Eliminate, Vietnam

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

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Because, Been, Anti-War

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

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Question, Here, Having, Western Countries

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

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Self-Esteem, Colonialism, Redress

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

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Myself, Imagination, Never, Believed

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

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Think, Always, I Think, Believed

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

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Election, Had, Any, Vote

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

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Work, Set, Having, Goals

The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

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Own, Souls, Been, Million Dollars

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

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Process, Depend, How, Peace Process

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

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Chance, Country, Very, Good Chance

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

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Brought, Extremists, So-Called

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

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Politics, Thought, Always, Possibility

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

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Country, Move, Very, Scared

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

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Government, Independent, Commission

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

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Election, Here, Means, Assume

People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

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Everyone, Knew, Again, Viable

If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

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Election, Young, Area, Apart

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

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Play, Think, Area, One Area

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

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Government, System, Needs, Local Government

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

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Think, Big, Solving, Big Problem

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

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Politics, Pakistan, Hereditary

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

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Minds, Muslim, Tries, President

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

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Other, Ruling Class, Ruling, Class

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

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Winning, Minds, Terrorism, Hearts

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

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Election, Bad, Might, Compared

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