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

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

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

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.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.