"We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people"
"Every tour leading up to the World Cup is important as we want to win everything so that the confidence level of the boys is sky high when they arrive in the West Indies. And to achieve that goal, we need to have the best players to accomplish the task. In this background, it is a body blow for us that our strike bowler will not be available for the Sri Lanka tour "
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want"
"Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do"
"We want democracy and nothing else. I am here to play my role and also make my own efforts to rid the country of dictatorship"
"If I can live life the way I want to, why can't you do it."
"The way I look at it any player can pick and choose the matches he wants to play. It will also create opportunities for for others to play at the top level"
"Normally in such cases even if the President wants someone to be present his staff informs the board to make that person available. And if the board was supposed to do this they have not conveyed anything properly or clearly to me. Which makes me feel that they are not interested in having me present in Islamabad"
"If you want to get the issue bogged down, I can do that. But we don't want to get others involved. We are moving forward bilaterally. So we are not involving the UN secretary general. The course we have adopted is best"
"I appeal to Pakistan's majority to assure that those people who want to harm Pakistan not damage any part of it"