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

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

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.

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

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.

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