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

I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.

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.

I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.