This is a mania in Pakistan and in India and it is for us to derive full advantage which we have done in the marketing contracts of television and other rights,

In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them.

Allah exalts whom he wills!

What will Bob Woolmer do now?

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

This would be nice because a lot of young people are into technology and computers and stuff, so it would be an easy path to follow and be a nice career too.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

The opposition parties should not be a part of the government’s foul play and they should not contest the local bodies elections until and unless a free and independent election commission is constituted.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I want you all to stand like the Muslims who stood with La ilaaha ilalla for Truth and Right

What will Bob Woolmer do now? The Pakistan cricket team has a bowling coach. Now they have a fielding coach and the skipper himself is a batsman. I don?t understand what will Bob Woolmer do.

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

There are security concerns everywhere in the world given the prevailing circumstances. England must keep this in mind.

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

After beating a team like Australia in the Ashes, England underestimated the strength of the Pakistani team.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.

Fielding cannot be improved by engaging coaches. Australia and South Africa are excellent fielding sides without any fielding coaches.

The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

In fact, I wonder who are the people who go to watch old men play cricket. I fear that someone would collapse on the field one day.

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

When I announced my party, Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) on 25 April 1996, I had lost all fear of dying.

Before September 11, the Pakistan government had a very close relationship with the Taliban government,

It’s more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished – this is the essence of meritocracy.

Actually you know we were more thinking of this election as basically a victory because we were zero in September. No one knew us. There was no party.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

reform of the courts, a return to democracy and the demise of the ‘crooks’ currently running the country.

I don’t know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends – this is anathema to concept of nationalism.

America has killed innocent people and hasn’t apologized.

Just give it everything you’ve got and bowl as fast as possible.